Top 58 Jim Rogers Quotes
#1. They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.
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#2. If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich
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#3. Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
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#4. If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?
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#5. Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.
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#6. Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.
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#7. You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.
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#8. The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.
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#9. I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.
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#10. There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss.
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#11. Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.
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#12. Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.
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#13. Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
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#14. I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.
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#15. Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.
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#16. It's a lot of fun finding a country that nobody knows about. The only thing better is finding a country everybody's bullish on and shorting it.
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#17. The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.
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#18. The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.
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#19. The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned.
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#20. I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.
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#21. Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.
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#22. If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!
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#23. I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.
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#24. My basic advise is don't lose money
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#25. Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.
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#26. Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.
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#27. I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.
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#28. Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
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#29. You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.
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#30. If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.
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#31. If you want to be lucky, do your homework.
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#32. I've got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.
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#33. When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.
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#34. Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.
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#35. If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.
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#36. Index investing outperforms active management year after year.
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#37. If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all. (A Gift to My Children)
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#38. Botswana was rich in diamonds, Ghana in cocoa and gold, Morocco in phosphates. There were many countries I was eager to visit and revisit, such as Zambia, with its emeralds and copper, and Cameroon, awash in oil. I could not wait to visit
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#39. Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.
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#40. If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.
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#42. Morocco, one of the more fully developed countries in Africa, with a solid infrastructure and a population of about 27 million, holds roughly two thirds of the world's reserves of phosphate rock - phosphate deposits are to Morocco as oil is to Venezuela - and dominates the world market in this vital
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#43. Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.
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#44. Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually work in the medium term. Lots of politicians like to do it because it is an easy way.
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#45. You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.
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#46. The Roman censor Appius Claudius the Blind said, Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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#47. Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can.
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#48. Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.
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#49. History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.
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#50. I have learned that when you've done your homework, once you recognize that supply and demand are totally out of whack, and you make your move, you are definitely going to get very lucky.
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#51. Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.
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#52. Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt,
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#53. Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.
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#54. Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.
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#55. The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.
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#56. Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts
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#57. Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.
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#58. The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.
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