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 Diamond in the rough
It's a wonderful mixture of travel diary, practical tips for serious adventurers, investment and financial information, and history, culture and ethics review of the regions through which this incredible couple has travelled. It is written with humor, self-distance, and a healthy dose of down-to-earth practicality, and Jim Rogers amazes with his in-depth insight knowledge of areas far beyond conventional financing.
Great book about investing
I read this book after Adventure Capitalist, even though Jim Rogers wrote it first. This book and Adventure Capitalist are two of my favirote books on investing. I recommend this to anyone.
Great read!
A highly original piece of travel writing that is also informative. NOT for the investment professional, but then again, the lessons learned are the types you don't learn in textbooks! Like how manual and human based a lot of stock markets were in the early 90s. Looking back the book hasn't dated. It's interesting to see how many projections were spot on.
A Book For Success
Highly recommended. Undestand the basics on it to develop a succesful approach in investments. Follow the principles shown here by many succesful worldwide investors.
 Wunderkind on Wheels
Jim Rogers took this trip and wrote this book in the very early 1990's, so you don't want to read it for specific investment advice. Rogers is not really a travel guy either nor is he a particularly good writer, so don't look here for travel guidance or entertainment. What useful travel information can a rich dude with a pocketful of platinum credit cards share with an ordinary Joe on a budget? No, what you want to remember here is that this is the guy who with George Soros in 1970 established the Quantum Fund, the first really international fund, which in the first ten years, gained 3400% while the S&P gained 50%. Rogers retired at 38 in 1980 and started his peripatetic second incarnation. If you're into bikes and babes, and who isn't, you'll enjoy this enjoy this tale of toil and bike maintenance. But what you really want to look for are Rogers' insights as to change, flux, as the only real constant you can count on. Don't believe that you can count forever on the world looking like it does now. Don't even count on the United States looking as it does now. That's long term. Shorter term you can expect evolution, some rapid, some more rapid, in countries and markets all over the globe. Looking back, he didn't get it all right. But he got quite a bit of it right. The rise of China, the collapse of our economy under its own weight of debt. Rogers is still going, still traveling and writing. Now he's sold out his home and his dollars and moved to Singapore. He's still predicting, pontificating, patronizing. He may be a bit hard to take. Chronic winners always are. But we could do a whole lot worse than to keep one eye on Rogers for a clue as to our own economic and financial future. If he comes across a bit arrogant, I supposed he is entitled.
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