The Speculator: 3 lessons from ace investor George Soros, by Laurel Kenner and Victor Niederhoffer
The Speculator: 3 lessons from ace investor George Soros
Kim Zussman comments:
I don't think there is such a thing as an unconditional friend. Everyone wants something - what is friendship if you get nothing out of it?
The same with 'unconditional love'. I had a conditional friend who was a feminist, and she said that her cat loved her unconditionally. I told her to do this experiment: Every day when you come home, find the cat and kick it (obviously just a thought experiment because never be cruel to any animal). After a month tell me about your cat's unconditional love for you.
Stefan Jovanovich adds:
Friendship and love are exchanges, contracts of shared interest and sentiment. Those of us who have endured bad partnerships and been sustained by good ones know that the people who sink the ship are those who are incapable of sharing good sense because they want people to promise to sacrifice "everything" in the name of the perfect union.