Most people who chase money want the money. George Soros, one of the most successful investors who ever lived, says he was after something else. He wanted ideas. Here is how he put it. The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money, he said, is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money. Then comes the honest twist. But I hate to think what would have happened if I hadn't made money, he added. My ideas would not have gotten much play. Money, for him, was never the goal. It was the megaphone. He cared about ideas, yet he knew, a little uncomfortably, that ideas on their own rarely get heard. The fortune is what made the world stop and listen.
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