Stanley Druckenmiller Quotes

#1. For 30 years I've been responsible for managing client money, and it's been a joy, but at some point I need to move on. Thirty years is enough.

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#2. I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.

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#3. Whenever I see a stock market explode, six to 12 months later you are in a full blown recovery.

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#4. If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

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#5. I think ageing demographics is a bigger issue in China than people think. And the problems it creates should be become evident as early as 2016.

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#6. If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know. It's hard to be very optimistic if you look at how humans have behaved historically.

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#7. Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn't look at coming changes.

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#8. I love being around kids. I couldn't figure out why all these 70-year-olds wanted to hang out with me when I was 27. Now I understand, and I'm trying to steal their energy from them like they stole from me at the time.

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#9. Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.

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#10. The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs ... When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.

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#11. All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as a kid 50 years ago.

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#12. The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.

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#13. I think old people like Hillary Clinton and I shouldn't try and be cool with social networks, you know; maybe she should leave that stuff up to Chelsea.

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#14. Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

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