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1、精品 料推荐吉姆 -罗杰斯:我的第一桶金Jim Rogers: My First MillionPublished:November20200918:26|Lastupdated:November 20 2009 18:26Since Jim Rogers, 67, co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros he has worked as a guest professor of finance at Columbia University and as an economic commentator. In 1998, he founded

2、 the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI).He is the author of A Bull in China, Hot Commodities, Adventure Capitalist and Investment Biker. His latest book is1精品 料推荐A Gift to My Children, a fatheressonsfors life and investing.EDITOR S CHOICEMy first million: More columns about how the wealth

3、y manage their money - Oct-31Raised in Alabama, Rogers started in business at the age of five, collecting empty soda bottles at the local baseball field. After graduating from Yale University in 1964, he won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He then got his first job on Wall Street.Rogers no

4、w lives in Singapore with his wife and their two young daughters.Did you think you would get to where you are?No, I am as surprised as anyone. I certainly wanted to get somewhere and was willing to work hard. I wanted to retire young, but I never thought I would retire before 40.2精品 料推荐When you real

5、ised that you had made your first million were you tempted to slow down?I can remember the exact dayof my first million dollars networth.It was in November1977. I was 35. I knew I neededmore than that to do what I wanted when I was 37 the age Idecided to stop working to seek adventure.What is the se

6、cret of your success?As I was not smarter than most people, I was willing to work harder than most. I was prepared to examine conventional wisdom. If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. Ifyou can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.What is your basic inv

7、estment strategy?Buy low and sell high. I try to find something that is very cheap, where a positive change is taking place. Then I do enough homework to make sure I am right. It has got to becheap so that, if Iam wrong, I don t lose much money. Every3精品 料推荐time I make a mistake, it is usually becau

8、se I did not do enough homework.Do not underestimate the value of due diligence. In the 1960s,General Motors was the world s most successful company. Oneday, a GM analystwent to the boardof directorswiththemessage:“ The Japanesearecoming. ”Theyignoredhim.Investors who did their homework sold their G

9、M stock andbought Toyota instead.I mnot buying any stocks at the moment. If anything is undervalued now it is commodities and some currencies.What has been your most spectacular gain?The Quantum Fund. When we started the company in 1970, Ihad $600 in my pocket. Within 10 years, the portfolio had gai

10、ned 4,200 per cent.Do you want to carry on till you drop?No. These days, I spend very few hours a day working, because4精品 料推荐I have two little girls and I want to spend as much time with them as possible.Both our girls have a Chinese governess and speak fluent Mandarin. For their generation, Mandari

11、n and English will be the most important languages.Have you made any pension provision?I don t have a pension because I hope I don t need one. I haveaccumulated assets and that is what I live on.What is your commitment to charity?I have given money to students and schools around the world.I try to g

12、ive scholarships to students rather than schools, because the students need the money more than administrators.Do you allow yourself the odd indulgence?I have been around the world twice. Setting off in 1990, I spent5精品 料推荐22 months travelling through six continents on a motorcycle.On my second trip

13、, which started in 1999, my wife and I travelled for three years through 116 countries in a custom-made Mercedes.What is the most you have ever paid for a bottle of fine wine or champagne?I don t have an upper limit for champagne, but I ve never hadtheurgetospend$2,000ona bottleof wine.Ialwaysrememb

14、er my background. I did not have money as a kid.Picasso or Art Deco as an investment?I am at a stage where I am not interested in having or amassing stuff.Do you believe in passing your wealth to children?I vealways thoughtthat, if you give childrentoo much, youwillruin them. I have set up my willso

15、 they don get much6精品 料推荐until they are at least 30.I went to Yale and Oxford and a lot of rich kids were there who never had to work. I know I want my children to be well-educated and experience the workplace.Education and the necessity to work changed my life and yanked me out of the backwater of

16、Alabama.Where should people put their money in the recession?Invest only in things you know something about. The mistakemost people make is that they listen to hot tips, or act on something they read in magazines.Most people know a lot about something, so they should juststick to what they know and

17、buy an investmentin that area.That is how you get rich.You don t get rich investing in things you know nothing about.7精品 料推荐Which of the following is a fact stated in this article?A:Jim Rogers is born rich.B:Jim Rogers still works long hours now.C:Jim Rogers speaks fluent Chinese.D:Jim Rogers had hi

18、s daughters at relatively old age.DHes 67 and have two young daughters.Which of the following is true about Jim Rogers investing strategy?A: Buy assets at cheap priceB: Only buy into areas that hes familiar withC: Pay attention to the future growth.D: All of the above. .DBuy low and sell high. I try to find something that is very cheap, where a positive change is taking place. Then I do enough homework to make sure I am right. It has got to be cheap sothat, if I am wrong, I don t lose much money. Every time I make a mistake, it is usually because I did not do enough homework.According

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