Jim Rogers Quotes

The idea that commodities, as an asset class, is finished is just fundamentally flawed.

I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

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.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.

Nothing ever surprises me about the market.

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past.

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.

Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.