Jim Rogers Quotes (46 Quotes)

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.

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

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

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

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The growth is pretty close to zero.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

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

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.

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.

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.

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

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.

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.

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.

Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?