137 Quotes by Jim Rogers

I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.

Botswana was rich in diamonds, Ghana in cocoa and gold, Morocco in phosphates. There were many countries I was eager to visit and revisit, such as Zambia, with its emeralds and copper, and Cameroon, awash in oil. I could not wait to visit.

Buy low and sell high. It’s pretty simple. The problem is knowing what’s low and what’s high.

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don’t do much.

Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn’t be politicians.