索罗斯

[美] 乔治·索罗斯

出版时间

1997-11-01

ISBN

9787806179178

评分

★★★★★

标签

投资

书籍介绍
这不像一本寻常的投资成功学。它最耐人寻味的地方,是索罗斯把“会犯错”当成一种能力来经营:承认理解永远不完备,于是主动寻找趋势的拐点,在众人笃定时保持警惕。书里反复出现的那“1%”——那些无法被量化模型捕获的系统性风险,才是他真正的兴趣所在。但让读者分歧的,恰是另一面:前半部华尔街的实战与反思尚且可读,后半部却几乎成了“开放社会”的政治布道,慈善、东欧变局、对欧洲秩序的评判占据了大量篇幅。于是它既像投资理论,又像政治宣言。真正适合它的,或许不是想学操盘手法的人,而是愿意追问“一个金融家凭什么认为自己有权影响历史”的读者——以及那个贯穿全书、略显刺眼的命题:我错故我在。
作者简介
乔治·索罗斯,1930年出生于匈牙利犹太人家庭。17岁到英国学习哲学,毕业后曾当过烟草推销员及金融职员,后自己组建量子基金会,成为美国最成功的投资经理人、著名国际金融专家。同时他还每年投入上亿美元从事世界范围的慈善事业,成为享誉全球的社会活动家。
AI导读
核心看点
  • 本书并非传统传记,而是基于访谈的实录,深度剖析索罗斯的‘反射性理论’。书中明确阐述市场参与者与市场价格之间存在双向反馈机制,即认知影响现实,现实又反过来修正认知,这种非理性互动导致市场永远处于不均衡状态,揭示了金融泡沫形成与破裂的内在逻辑。
  • 全面记录索罗斯从匈牙利犹太难民到华尔街巨头的传奇经历,包括创立量子基金、与罗杰斯的合作与决裂、1987年股灾中的失误反思,以及狙击英镑、干预日本股市等重大金融战役。书中坦诚面对失败,强调‘我错故我在’的纠错哲学,展示其作为投机者的道德反省与风险意识。
  • 深入探讨索罗斯的政治哲学与社会理想,详细叙述其建立开放社会基金会的历程,以及对东欧剧变、南非种族隔离终结等历史事件的幕后推动。书中批判封闭社会与教条主义,主张通过经济手段促进政治自由与法治,展现其作为‘世界公民’对全球秩序、民族主义及国际政治的深刻忧虑与干预。
读者共识
  • 读者普遍认可索罗斯在金融理论上的独创性,尤其是‘反射性理论’对理解市场泡沫与危机的价值。尽管部分读者认为翻译不佳导致阅读体验受损,但多数仍肯定其思想深度。大家一致认为,书中关于承认错误、自我批判的态度极具启发性,是超越投资技巧的重要人生智慧。
  • 对于索罗斯的政治活动与社会理想,读者评价两极分化。部分读者赞赏其推动东欧民主化、支持人权事业的理想主义情怀,认为其展现了资本向善的力量;另一部分读者则对其干涉他国内政、推行特定意识形态持怀疑或批判态度,认为其政治观点具有局限性,需辩证看待。
  • 读者普遍反映书中前半部分关于生平与投资实战的内容可读性强,生动有趣;但后半部分关于哲学、政治及基金会活动的论述枯燥晦涩,难以卒读。建议读者根据自身兴趣选择性阅读,重点汲取其投资哲学与风险意识,对政治评论部分保持独立思考,勿盲目崇拜。
精彩摘录
  • "In the last twenty years, there has been a lot of progress made in measuring risk for investment portfolios. Why don't you employ these scientific quantitative methods? Because we don't believe in them. They're generally constructed on the assumption of efficient market theory. That theory is in con"
  • "On a personal level, I am a very critical person who looks for defects in myself as well as in others. But, being so critical, I am also quite forgiving. I couldn't recognize my mistakes if I couldn't forgive myself. To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a so"
  • "According to my theory of initially self-reinforcing, but eventually self-defeating trends, the trend is your friend most of the way; trend followers only get hurt at inflection points, where the trend changes. Most of the time I am a trend follower, but all the time I am aware that I am a member of"
  • "More generally, running an investment portfolio is not work in the ordinary sense of the word. It is something else. It is risk taking. The amount of work you need to do is inversely related to your success. That is to say, if you are working at what is normally considered work, if you are a salesma"
  • "We both started with the postulate that the markets are always wrong. Actually the big difference between Jim Rogers and me was that Jim thought that the prevailing view was always wrong, whereas I thought that we may be wrong also. Wall Street wisdom was, by definition, conventional wisdom, and sin"
  • "Then there was the Real Estate Investment Trust industry (REITs), which I put on the map. We got it right coming and going. I issued a study in which I described it as an initially self-reinforcing but eventually self-defeating process that would end badly with most REITs going bust. But the end was"
  • "This was, I think, the Wednesday before Black Monday. That's when I should have been in the office and getting the hell out of the market, but I missed it. I could see trouble coming, but I thought it would come first in Japan, where a financial bubble was developing, so I was short Japan and long t"
  • "I also use it to describe specific instances where the two-way feedback mechanism disrupts both the course of events and the participants' perceptions in a way that gives rise to a disequilibrium."
目录
第1章 大师出道
同面坎坷,父母的影响/极圈同志下的生活/逃出匈牙利英格兰之旅/追随卡尔・波普/初闯华尔街
第2章 量子基金
初创基金会/与罗杰斯合作及分手/由四百万到四亿/生活危机:成功的代价/黑色星期一/重建管理班底

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用户评论
下班路过地摊买了本;投资理论章说的很棒。为开放社会做了不少事情。有思想深度;
前半部分讲的是索罗斯传奇般的生平经历,读来还有点意思:后半部分讲的基本是基金会和开放社会的事,读起来相当费劲。。。
读过,挺有意思,但是帮助不大。
索罗斯的投资哲学,一句话物极必反。
有很多细节。
索罗斯的存在,是一种国际社会关系的集中点,各个部分的关系需要寻找代理人,以平衡或促进某种变化的发生,索罗斯冥冥之中承担了这样的代理角色,透过他的话语和行动,我们看到了国际社会关系的影子,没有他也会有下一个人,但无论是谁,都不是发明人或创造者,这不是具体的事物拼装,纯粹是一种抽象关系的表达,有谁能把自然和社会的这种抽象关系据为己有呢?当然,为了铭记科学家、数学家和哲学家们的努力,我们会借用他们具体的人名以作区分,其实这已经偏离了存在本身,就像老子说的“名可名非常名”,如何对关系进一步认知,如何改善关系,以利于人的发展(人也是社会关系造就的,不过反过来可以改善它),这是所有学问家们需要思考的严肃问题。索罗斯做了很有趣的思考,从波普尔那里学了点东西,他还能运用在金融上,去校验猜想,这很行动派,赞!
看懂些生平,没看懂投资理论。看来他支助了东欧巨变
学生时代的读物
解答了最近的困惑,人一旦生病了,周围一切都会生病了。康复了,周围的环境也康复了。
索罗斯反复就讲了一件重要的事情——反身效应——既要心存惊醒又要享受泡沫。
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