Top 50 Jim Rogers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.”

— Jim Rogers

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

— Jim Rogers

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3. “If you want to be lucky, do your homework.”

— Jim Rogers

4. “Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.”

— Jim Rogers

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5. “The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.”

— Jim Rogers

6. “My basic advise is don’t lose money.”

— Jim Rogers

7. “The first loss is the best loss.”

— Jim Rogers

8. “You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.”

— Jim Rogers

9. “Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts.”

— Jim Rogers

10. “I haven’t met a rich technician.”

— Jim Rogers

11. “I was poor once, I didn’t like it, I don’t want to be poor again.”

— Jim Rogers

12. “If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.”

— Jim Rogers

13. “Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.”

— Jim Rogers

14. “If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.”

— Jim Rogers

15. “If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.”

— Jim Rogers

16. “If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!”

— Jim Rogers

17. “There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss.”

— Jim Rogers

18. “I’ve got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.”

— Jim Rogers

19. “The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.”

— Jim Rogers

20. “History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.”

— Jim Rogers

21. “Do not worry about failure, I would tell them. Do not worry about making mistakes in life. It is good to lose money, to go broke at least once, and preferably twice. But if you are going to do it, do it early in your career. It is better to go bust when you are talking about $20,000 than when you are talking about $20 million. Do it early, and it is not the end of the world.”

— Jim Rogers

22. “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.”

— Jim Rogers

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

— Jim Rogers

24. “Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.”

— Jim Rogers

25. “The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you’re not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.”

— Jim Rogers

26. “Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.”

— Jim Rogers

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

— Jim Rogers

28. “Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.”

— Jim Rogers

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

— Jim Rogers

30. “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.”

— Jim Rogers

31. “Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually work in the medium term. Lots of politicians like to do it because it is an easy way.”

— Jim Rogers

32. “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.”

— Jim Rogers

33. “Index investing outperforms active management year after year.”

— Jim Rogers

34. “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.”

— Jim Rogers

35. “When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it’s almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it’s blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.”

— Jim Rogers

36. “Paper money is made of cotton, and I’m long cotton, by the way. One reason I’m long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can.”

— Jim Rogers

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

— Jim Rogers

38. “Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.”

— Jim Rogers

39. “I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.”

— Jim Rogers

40. “If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?”

— Jim Rogers

41. “Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.”

— Jim Rogers

42. “Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.”

— Jim Rogers

43. “They wouldn’t be politicians if they knew what they were doing.”

— Jim Rogers

44. “It’s a lot of fun finding a country that nobody knows about. The only thing better is finding a country everybody’s bullish on and shorting it.”

— Jim Rogers

45. “The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.”

— Jim Rogers

46. “The Roman censor Appius Claudius the Blind said, “Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”

— Jim Rogers

47. “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.”

— Jim Rogers

48. “The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.”

— Jim Rogers

49. “You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.”

— Jim Rogers

50. “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.”

— Jim Rogers