0:00 Intro3:24 Travelling while young or focus on capital6:18 Countries adopting the US dollar9:30 How did you start investing13:22 What is your opinion on money and wealth17:49 How to deal with tough times19:41 Work life balance22:43 Opinion on Canada30:53 Thoughts on Latin America and Peru33:51 How do you deal with Irrational markets?36:37 Being a patient investor38:00 Is cash a safe investment?
Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973, helping to steer the fund to a 4200% return before "retiring" at age 37. He is considered to be one of the greatest investors of all time. Rogers has made two record-setting journeys - once by motorcycle and once by car - and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for doing so. In between his frequent travels, he has served as a professor at Columbia University, started his own commodity index and is a frequent media commentator worldwide. Rogers has also authored six books. He currently lives in Singapore with his family. Jim has authored a half dozen books, including: Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers (NYTimes Bestseller), Adventure Capitalist
, Hot Commodities
(NYTimes Bestseller), A Bull in China
, A Gift to My Children
, and most recently, Street Smarts.