137 Quotes by Jim Rogers

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all.

Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.

According to the media and other stock market "experts," the equities bull is forever hiding just around that next corner on Wall Street. But millions of investors who listened to the experts back in 1998-2001 about "the New Economy" get hammered in the stock market and are still trying to get back to even. The smart investor looks for opportunities to acquire value on the cheap, with one eye out for a dynamic change in the offing that might make that investment even more valuable.

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

There is nothing better than having to struggle and make your own way.

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.

Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.