Jim Rogers Quotes

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I learned very early in my investing careers: I better not invest in what I want. I better invest in what's happening in the world. Otherwise I'll be broke - dead broke.

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. Most people – not that I’m better than most people – always have to be playing; they always have to be doing something. They make a big play and say, “Boy, am I smart, I just tripled my money.” Then they rush out and have to do something else with that money. They can’t just sit there and wait for something new to develop

Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts

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

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

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 bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich

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

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

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.