Jim Rogers Quotes

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

Portfolio theory, as used by most financial planners, recommends that you diversify with a balance of stocks and bonds and cash that's suitable to your risk tolerance.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

Never underrate the importance of asset allocation.

Diversification has been, and balance, like Wellington, has been so drummed into me, it's part of my personality.

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The greater the number of selections, the less will be the average year-to-year variation in actual versus expected results. Also, the lower will be the expected results, assuming different choices have different expectations of performance.

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.

I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas.

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.

When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.

The key to making money is to stay invested.

We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.