Jim Rogers Quotes

I worked on 'Boone' for five years. I tried to find money for it. I couldn't. I ended up selling my house to finance it personally.

Britain is a proud nation of entrepreneurs, and small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound and there is nothing in the business situation to warrant the destruction of values that has taken place on the exchanges during the past week, my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks. We are continuing and will continue our purchases in substantial amounts at levels which we believe represent sound investment values.

There can't be opportunity or jobs without investment and profit.

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

If you need to bring in a business partner, make sure your partner brings along some money.

I really want to focus on economic growth and growing the economy.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful business. With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least 10% of your net worth in that stock.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.

He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.

I invite you all to participate in Make in India.

To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it