If You're Smart, Put Your Money Into Anything Related To Agriculture

Nobody wants to farm any more. Yet there are more people than even now. Seven billion of us....Fewer and fewer people are producing more and more food for more and more of us. That's only going to get worse over the next 20 or 30 years. So if you're smart, put your money into anything related to agriculture.

Acknowledge The Complexity Of The World

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.

The Surprise In Oil Is Going To Be...

The surprise in oil is going to be how high it stays and how high it goes. The IEA, has done a study. The world`s known reserves of oil are in steady decline. We have to find a lot of oil or the price of oil is going to unheard of heights.

Finance: It Has Always Worked This Way

When I went to Wall Street in the 60`s nobody went to Wall Street. In the 50`s, 60`S, and 70`s, Wall Street was not important. Then we had a big bull market for 30 years and it became extremely important. Everybody got an MBA and everyone wanted to go into finance. But that has happened many times in history. In the beginning of the 20th century, for the first 30 years of the 20th century, finance, they were the kings, they ruled everything. Then we had the big collpase in the 30`s and it became disastrous again until the 80`s. It has always worked this way. Jim Rogers

My Advice To Young People: Get Into Agriculture

My advice to young people would be to get into agriculture. If you want to make money over the next 20 years, agriculture is the way to go. If you don't want to be a farmer, buy the Lamborghini dealership or a restaurant in Iowa. Why? Because the farmers in Iowa are going to be very wealthy. And they will be able to afford Lamborghinis. Fewer and fewer people are producing more and more food for more and more of us. That's only going to get worse over the next 20 or 30 years. So if you're smart, put your money into anything related to agriculture

Keys To Success

Jim Rogers' Keys to Success (taken from the titles and sub headings of each chapter of the new book, "A Gift To My Children"): 1. Do not let others do your thinking for you 2. Focus on what you like 3. Good habits for life & investing 4. Common sense? not so common 5. Attention to details is what separates success from failure 6. Let the world be a part of your perspective 7. Learn philosophy & learn to think 8. Learn history 9. Learn languages (make sure Mandarin is one of them) 10. Understand your weaknesses & acknowledge your mistakes 11. Recognize change & embrace it 12. Look to the future 13. “Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts” 14. Remember that nothing is really new 15. Know when not to do anything 16. Pay attention to what everybody else neglects 17. If anybody laughs at your idea view it as a sign of potential success

Myanmar: They Have Everything

It’s right between China and India, 60 million people, massive natural resources, agriculture. You could feed much of Asia, they have metals, they have energy, they have everything.