Jim Rogers Quotes

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• Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.
• Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
• 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…
• Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
• 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.
• If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!
• Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.
• The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.
• I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.
• I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.
• Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.
• 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…
• I don`t think I own any US stocks, if I do its very few, so few I can`t even remember.
• 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…
• Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

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