, investor
, philosopher, and philanthropist
. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management
. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his in investment profits during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis
.
Between 1979 and 2011, Soros gave away over $8 billion to human rights, public health, and education causes. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Hungary
(1984–89), and provided Europe's largest-ever higher education endowment to Central European University
in Budapest
.
The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money. But I hate to think what would have happened if I hadn't made money: My ideas would not have gotten much play.
My peculiarity is that I don't have a particular style of investing or, more exactly, I try to change my style to fit the conditions.