Success Quote by George Soros

Soros is offering a cold-blooded optimism that only makes sense if you think like a trader: when conditions get dire, the market’s expectations collapse faster than reality does. In that gap, tiny improvements read as major reversals. The line is less self-help than asymmetry math. If sentiment is already in the basement, good news doesn’t have to be heroic to look miraculous.

The subtext is contrarian and faintly predatory. “The worse it gets” isn’t a cue for despair; it’s an invitation to hunt for mispricing. Soros built his legend on the idea that markets don’t just reflect fundamentals, they amplify narratives, panic, and feedback loops. When those loops push prices beyond what the underlying situation warrants, the risk-reward flips. Downside becomes capped by how much has already been priced in; upside expands because any stabilization forces a rapid repricing.

There’s also a moral ambiguity baked into the phrasing. He’s not saying crises are good; he’s saying crises create leverage for whoever can endure discomfort longer than everyone else. That’s the real intent: conditioning you to see “turnaround” as a probabilistic event, not a moral one.

Context matters: Soros is famous for betting against consensus at moments of high stress, from currency crises to political shocks. Read here, the quote doubles as a philosophy of intervention, too: when a system is stretched to breaking, small policy moves or shifts in belief can cascade into large outcomes. The wink is that the “less it takes” can be a reform, a rumor, or a well-timed wager.