Jim Rogers Quotations

Where's a group that really deserves something? Veterans.

We're aware that people worry about H5N1 in hogs... but any safeguarding now would be from the bird standpoint.

Throughout history the public has always piled into the latest bull market right at the top so few have caught on to the bull market in commodities.

Wayne is the county that was built through the tremendous growth of business and manufacturing for a century, and now that's declined so the jobs have declined. People came here for jobs. They're leaving for jobs. It's as simple as that.

We've seen so much destruction and teardowns of dated homes. We just don't fit in anymore.

We've seen so much destruction and teardowns of dated homes, ... We just don't fit in anymore.

Singapore is doing a good job. It's opening up to the outside world and letting its people do new things.

Maybe the trend is your friend for a few minutes in Chicago, but for the most part it is rarely a way to get rich

On my recent trip around the world, I bought shares of companies in places like China and Chile, countries I feel have great potential.

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.

If a student goes out of state, they are not coming back.

We've got to solve some of the financial challenges for these students. I can't see any other way to do it but scholarships.

with more money than knew existed in the world.

Having an entity out there assessing and evaluating and having the information being made public, that's not all bad, ... It's just one additional way of providing some kind of picture of higher education in this country.

Research has shown that it's extremely unusual to find more than one infected animal in a herd, especially in a country where the disease has as low a prevalence as it does in the U.S.. Plus there are food safety measures taken at the time of slaughter that are designed to prevent potentially contaminated material from entering the food chain.

Supply and demand is terribly out of balance for nearly all commodities right now. This is not a bubble.

I think I'm going to make a lot more money in coffee, orange juice or cotton, but I own silver as well.

It is difficult to judge altitude, looking straight down, ... So I lowered him based on his hand signals, which is what we are taught to do.

We're working with Canada right now to obtain more information to determine whether or not the ban can be scaled down in size or eliminated or if it needs to remain in place.

We're waiting to get more information from Canada, at which point we could be able to scale back, ... We just need that information.

We did very well with the last legislative session and I think we will do very well in the next session so long as we can prove our case.

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

You don't necessarily have to own a marketing and trading business to get that value.

What we (the Council for a Better Nevada) have shown is we have a real legitimate interest in our community. To that extent, I think we've had some effect.

We're not poor, but that's a chunk of dough,

Today's stock price does not reflect the company's value.

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

Commodity bull runs have lasted 15-20 years...We have got another nine to 17 years to go.

Commodities are a great investment during an inflationary period because increases in the price of raw materials reflect the rising costs of goods.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, high prices led companies to overproduce, leading to substantial excess supply and stockpiling.

The whole world works on credit and the state Legislature can't, ... We need to get in the credit business.

Seeing his parents walk in, the first people I saw, I didn't know them, they just came up and hugged me and started crying. That was a big reminder. I have three kids. They have three kids.

Presidents are reluctant to take on a regent,

You're starting to see a tipping point in Congress on this issue.

There's been no increase in (fuel economy) standards since 1985. It's going to take a lot of political courage to address that issue.

As we go forward, the student or the private sector will have to pay more and more of the higher education burden.

It's just great to see all the people from the community and our friends and families come out,

I took the bait to some extent and started thinking about it,

It's a big vision. I hope we're around to check this out when something has really happened.

For instance, I used to trade Malaysian palm oil. But Malaysia, back in 1998, restricted the currency, and made it very difficult to buy and sell palm oil.

Then we told them the asking price. One man said he could be in a hotel by Saturday.

That's outrageous. There is something terribly wrong in their methodology for educating kids.

The BlackBerry capability itself is excellent and may be second to none.

It's a magnificent animal. Hunt it, but show it some respect.

It will be open to them, I can tell you.

They can't get the stuff out of the ground fast enough. No one has opened a major mine anywhere in a very long time.

The new Duke Energy will participate in the continued consolidation of the electric and gas industry, and David has the experience and strategic skills to be a key member of our leadership team,

In bull markets, everything makes an all-time high, and silver is going to do so again in the next 10, 15 years.

I'm kind of ready for spring, but it's all relative. I would definitely be depressed if I had to shovel snow. In April I was just happy to get out on the golf course a couple of times and not have the ground frozen.

I have no intention in running for governor. I don't care who asks at this point... It will make no difference to me.

I'll sell when Merrill Lynch has commodity brokers in every office again and the TV networks are broadcasting from the soybean pits in Chicago.

I’ve got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.

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

I haven't met a rich technician

My basic advise is don't lose money

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.

If you want to be lucky, do your homework.

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

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

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.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

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

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

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. 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 wait for a situation that is like the proverbial shooting fish in a barrel.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The funding (for the lease payments) is going to have to come from student fees or tuition or things of that sort,

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.

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

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

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

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

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.

The first loss is the best loss.

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?

I don`t think I own any US stocks, if I do its very few, so few I can`t even remember.

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.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.