Quotes by Jim Rogers

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.

Opinion Leaders

People

Support

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

Littles

Politician

School

Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Active Management

Investing Money

Years

Buy low and sell high. It’s pretty simple. The problem is knowing what’s low and what’s high.

Knowing

Problem

Simple

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

Active Management

Commodity

Equity

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.

Doe

Long

Way

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.

Choices

Eggs

Watches

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.

Hype

Long

Wall

Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

Get Rich

Rich

Way

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

Boards

Investing

President

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Active Management

Advise

Analysts

Bail

Bears

Birth Rate

Boards

Boys

Broke

Bulls

Business

Chance

Children

Chinese

Choices

Christian

Cities

Collapse

College

Commodity

Company

Corners

Country

Cutting

Debt

Diversification

Doe

Drs

Each Day

Effort

Eggs

Equity

Exercise

Facts

Fallacy

Figures

Finance

Financial

Firsts

Forgotten

Fun

Funny

Get Rich

Giving

Government

Helping

Homework

Hot

Humorous

Hype

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Quotes by Jim Rogers

Jim Rogers

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

Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Buy low and sell high. It’s pretty simple. The problem is knowing what’s low and what’s high.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

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.

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.

Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

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