Druckenmiller Quotes

#1. 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.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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

Stanley Druckenmiller

#3. In your poem, did a prince rescue the princess?"
"No, in fact," he said, his gaze quite fixed in hers, like on that rainy day in the corridor. "Not yet, at least."

-Jacqueline & Cam

Katharine Ashe

#4. 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.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#5. The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.

Voltaire

#6. My entire life, I saw myself as the beautiful damsel or the graceful maiden. I was the princess searching for her knight. But with my newfound abilities, I finally discovered that, after all this time, I was the powerful witch.

Christina L. Barr

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

Stanley Druckenmiller

#8. 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.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#9. I have acquired you, and now I will determine your value to me.

Robert Peate

#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.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#11. For me, the triad of 'Harry Potter,' the 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' feature strong women, and as a declared feminist, it's a wonderful thing. These women have really opened up this particular world of storytelling, which I'm very grateful for.

Cassandra Clare

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

Stanley Druckenmiller

#13. All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

Keith Green

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

Stanley Druckenmiller

#15. Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

Denis Waitley

#16. I was investing more and more of myself into an outcome I couldn't predict and would very likely be disappointed by. But for me there was no other option.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#17. 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.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#18. 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.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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

Stanley Druckenmiller

#20. No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Michael Ende

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

Stanley Druckenmiller

#22. 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.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#23. 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.

Stanley Druckenmiller