Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.

  • -- George Soros 乔治·索罗斯

市场的设计是为了让个人照顾他们的私人需求和追求利润。这确实是一个伟大的发明,我不会低估它的价值,但它们并不是为了满足社会需求而设计的。

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Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

市场无法考虑超过三个月的任何事情。这对市场来说是非常长期的,这就是为什么生活中重要的东西必须被带到市场之外。

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

很明显,在罗马开始她的征服生涯的那个被称为国王统治时期,在那个时期和那个国家,她是一个伟大而富有的城市。

The culture of the chairmanship is to be the dominant voice in the Fed. If you have a weak chairman... the markets could be very unsettled.

担任美联储主席的文化就是要成为美联储的主导声音。市场可能会非常动荡。

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

乌托邦主义可能是产生超人努力的必要社会手段,没有这种努力,就不会有重大革命。

Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.

人是创造出来的,通常不会接受否定的答案。

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

所以我选择了工程学,尤其是产品设计,我很喜欢。

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

我不相信社会平等,他们知道这一点。

Necessity... the mother of invention.

必要性…发明之母。