Jim Rogers Quotes

With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

If the world does well, gold will be fine. If the world doesn't do well, gold will also do fine... but a lot of other things could collapse.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.

I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.

If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

If you've got an industry where you've got massive investment, it doesn't matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

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.

You can't invest in natural gas on a daily basis. It's too volatile. But if you think of natural gas as a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out. A long-term time horizon would be at least two years.

Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning.

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.

I've learned that all investments have risk.