INVESTING MONEY

Television crews from England and the United States requested his
cooperation for short documentaries on his career. For the first time,
he gave them permission to film in his investment offices in New York
and in the Budapest cellars where he had hid from the Nazis.
For Soros, it was certainly worthwhile. In an ABC-TV documentary
that aired on December 13, 1993, he said: “[My fund] has become
so enormous that it doesn’t make sense unless I have a use for the
money…. It seems to be easier [to make money than to spend it]. I seem
to have a greater facility in making it than in making the right decisions
in giving it away.”
No more identity crises overtook him. Soros seemed a most satisfied
individual. Still, he yearned for more from life, as he made clear in a
remarkable interview he gave to Leadership magazine in July 1993. The
reporter asked him how he saw himself at this point?
Soros: “I am a work in progress and I am rather satisfied with the
curve that events have taken. I like myself a great deal better than I did
when I was purely on the moneymaking side. Now I feel more complete….
If I could just progress towards a better understanding of how
it all hangs together it would give me great satisfaction.”

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