Jim Rogers Quotes

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. ~ Jim Rogers

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. ~ Jim Rogers

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. ~ Jim Rogers

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. ~ Jim Rogers

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. ~ Jim Rogers

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows. ~ Jim Rogers

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 ~ Jim Rogers

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. ~ Jim Rogers

I've got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can. ~ Jim Rogers

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is. ~ Jim Rogers

The Roman censor Appius Claudius the Blind said, Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ~ Jim Rogers

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since. ~ Jim Rogers

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin. ~ Jim Rogers

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing. ~ Jim Rogers

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success! ~ Jim Rogers

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again. ~ Jim Rogers

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time. ~ Jim Rogers

There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss. ~ Jim Rogers

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. ~ Jim Rogers

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich ~ Jim Rogers

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that. ~ Jim Rogers

If you want to be lucky, do your homework. ~ Jim Rogers

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) ~ Jim Rogers

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. ~ Jim Rogers

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up. ~ Jim Rogers

The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic. ~ Jim Rogers

Do not worry about failure, I would tell them. Do not worry about making mistakes in life. It is good to lose money, to go broke at least once, and preferably twice. But if you are going to do it, do it early in your career. It is better to go bust when you are talking about $20,000 than when you are talking about $20 million. Do it early, and it is not the end of the world. ~ Jim Rogers

History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse. ~ Jim Rogers

If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification. ~ Jim Rogers

Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients. Henry Ford never diversified, Bill Gates didn't diversify. The way to get rich is to put your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket very carefully. And make sure you have the right basket. ~ Jim Rogers

According to the media and other stock market "experts," the equities bull is forever hiding just around that next corner on Wall Street. But millions of investors who listened to the experts back in 1998-2001 about "the New Economy" get hammered in the stock market and are still trying to get back to even.
The smart investor looks for opportunities to acquire value on the cheap, with one eye out for a dynamic change in the offing that might make that investment even more valuable. ~ Jim Rogers

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much. ~ Jim Rogers

Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries. ~ Jim Rogers

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. ~ Jim Rogers

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. ~ Jim Rogers

This is the legacy of China's one-child policy, instituted in 1980 (and just officially ended in 2002). Studies have shown that only children and firstborns are usually smarter, more driven, and more accomplished than other children. And, of course, they are more often spoiled. In China one finds an entire country of only children. Everybody's child is special, smarter, more driven, and more accomplished - or ~ Jim Rogers

The first loss is the best loss. ~ Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong. ~ Jim Rogers

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob. ~ Jim Rogers

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone. ~ Will Rogers

Love is the degree to which you are willing to sacrifice your own interests for those of another. It doesn't matter what sex you are. It doesn't matter who you are, or were. It only matters that you care more for someone else than you do for yourself. It's when you eat minlatta with tarragon oil even when you hate pasta because someone with you enjoys it. It's when you value being alone more than anything but agree to move in with someone because they need you. And believe this, Ellis Rogers, for I am quite certain that love is most certainly when you push away the one person in all the world you want to be with because you think your thoughts would cause them pain. ~ Michael J. Sullivan

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington. ~ Jim Hightower

The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts productivity, it's worth it. ~ Jim Cooper

Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies backed by nothing, it is equally fair to say that gold is a faith-based metal. It pays no dividend, cannot be eaten, and is mostly used for nothing more useful than jewelry. I would say that anything of which 75% sits idly and expensively in bank vaults is, as a measure of value, only one step up from the Polynesian islands that attached value to certain well-known large rocks that were traded. ~ Jeremy Grantham

I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits of allowing other people's control over one's -consciousness - which I kind of thought was a double meaning that was appropriate. ~ Jim Jarmusch

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't. ~ Jim Rohn

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. ~ Jim Lee

Always drink upstream from the herd. ~ Will Rogers

Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About:
- Titanic sinking again.
- Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda.
- Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies. ~ Jim Benton

Death should be a learning experience, after all, or what's the point? ~ Jim Butcher

Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home? ~ Will Rogers

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job. ~ Jim Butcher

There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences. ~ Jim Bush

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked. ~ Mike Rogers

I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts - they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them. ~ Jim Carrey

Consequently, I get inspiration from all over the place. But it's not like a calculated thing on my part, or a way that I see myself. I'm just interested in things that move me, and I don't care where they come from. In fact, I'm interested if they come from a place I wouldn't expect, or would seem foreign to me on some level. ~ Jim Jarmusch

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a
full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy
ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness. ~ Jim Harrison

There was a horrible, wrenching sound, a screech of protesting metal, and one of the screams peaked at a shivering, violent point - then dissolved into a strangled mishmash of sounds, of tearing and snapping and popping, of gurgling and thudding. And when they were finished, something, something big, with a cavernous, resonating chest, snarled from not ten feet beyond the security door. ~ Jim Butcher

If you lose you haven't lost, it's just a victory pending. ~ Olan Rogers

You're supposed to be a spirit of intellect. I don't understand why you're obsessed with sex."
Bob's voice got defensive. "It's an academic interest, Harry."
"Oh yeah? Well maybe I don't think it's fair to let your academia go peeping in other people's houses."
"Wait a minute. My academia doesn't just peep -"
I held up a hand. "Save it. I don't want to hear it."
He grunted. "You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry. You're insulting my masculinity."
"Bob," I said, "you're a skull . You don't have any masculinity to insult."
"Oh yeah?" Bob challenged me. "Pot kettle black, Harry! Have you gotten a date yet? Huh? Most men have something better to do in the middle of the night than play with their chemistry sets. ~ Jim Butcher

I've heard that nature abhors a vacuum - though if that's true, then I can't figure why about ninety-nine zillion percent of creation is vacuum. ~ Jim Butcher

The pain we feel in life always grows. When we're little, little pains hurt us. When we get bigger, we learn to handle more and more pain and carry on regardless. ~ Jim Butcher

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me. ~ Jim Bridwell

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. ~ Richard Rogers

I did absolutely nothing. Carefully. ~ Jim Butcher

Her look dared me to make some kind of chivalrous commentary. I didn't, and she didn't break my nose, by way of fair exchange. ~ Jim Butcher

Dear child, everything needs to happen according to God's plan. Otherwise, it will result in certain disaster. The fasgadair are faster and stronger. God will protect us, but we must do things His way. ~ J.F. Rogers

What I was thinking was that she must have buggers in her bloomers or a chigger on her figger, or however you say it. It looked to me like something had better be done about it pretty quick, or her pants would start blazing and maybe they'd set the fairgrounds on fire and there'd be a panic with thousands of people getting stomped to death, not to mention the property damage. And I couldn't think of but one way to prevent it. ~ Jim Thompson

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking. ~ Jim Butcher

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways. ~ Pattiann Rogers

If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better. ~ Jim Rohn

In combat situations, your choices can be judged based only against what you knew at the time. To expect anything more of a soldier is to demand that he or she be superhuman. Which seems, to me, unreasonable. ~ Jim Butcher

A Christian's hope is not a possibility but a promise in Jesus. ~ Jim George

This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly. ~ Jim C. Hines

If you give up on your dreams, what's left? ~ Jim Carrey

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond. ~ Jim Jeffords

Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal. ~ Jim Wallis

[T]here's a good reason to stay pessimistic about deficits as far as the eye can see. It's called the 'news' media. Legislators who want to get re-elected will clearly want to avoid any spending decision that will create bad national publicity, and our news media, the manufacturers of bad national publicity, will send crying victims down the assembly line at the slightest thought of a social spending cut or freeze. Exhibit A is Sen. Jim Bunning. ~ L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

The mystery of the MAGIC BATHROOM will be revealed unto thee. ~ Peter Rogers