Contents
Preface 5
Chapter 1 The World’s Greatest Investor 11
Chapter 2 I Am God 25
Chapter 3 The Cellars of Budapest 34
Chapter 4 Like Freud or Einstein 41
Chapter 5 The Blind Leading the Blind 47
Chapter 6 Fascinated by Chaos 52
Chapter 7 Invest First and Investigate Later 65
Chapter 8 Putting My Money Where My Mouth Was 75
Chapter 9 A Quantum Leap 86
Chapter 10 The Identity Crisis 92
Chapter 11 The Imperial Circle 98
Chapter 12 Killing of a Lifetime 106
Chapter 13 Philosophical Speculator 116
Chapter 14 A Cheap Price for Freedom 122
Chapter 15 An Urge to Reveal Oneself 140

Chapter 16 The Big Crash 148
Chapter 17 It Takes Courage To Be a Pig 155
Chapter 18 Taming the Snake 164
Chapter 19 “The One-Way Bet” 173
Chapter 20 Black Wednesday 179
Chapter 21 King of the Hedge Funds 190
Chapter 22 The Guru 196
Chapter 23 A Common Virus Known as Hubris 204
Chapter 24 I’m a Hungarian Jew 216
Chapter 25 The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre 225
Chapter 26 Mr. Soros Goes to Washington 229
Chapter 27 Richer Than 42 Countries 238