Jim Rogers Quotes

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.

Just like I gave Jack Ma and Alibaba the luxury of staying private for longer, I am now giving Arm the gift of being private. My only message to them now is take my investment and let's go, go, go.

A lot of people want to start a business, and they're like, 'I wanna start a business, give me some money to invest.' Where is your business plan? Are you investing money yourself into your own business? How is this going to work? People think that they can just come to you with an idea and have money.

Investment in businesses creates sustainable jobs.

I'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money.

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

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

We own only a small percentage in Omnivore, but we manage it. It is basically a venture capital fund to help newer enterprises and provide them with the funding they require in their early stages of development.

Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.

Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.

There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.