JIM ROGERS
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Jim Rogers
Speaker, 1994 - Around the World by Motorcyle
Speaker, 2003 - The Millenium Adventure
Best selling author:
- Investment Biker
- Adventure Capitalist
- Hot Commodities- How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market
Set a round the world Guinness World Record, exploring the world as it was at the dawn of the new Millenium.
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Jim Rogers is the author of Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers (published by Random House in 1994). He is an investor who has been chronicled in Jon Train's Money Masters of Our Time, Jack Schwager's Market Wizards, and other books. He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and most publications dealing with the economy or finance. He has also appeared as a regular commentator and columnist in various media and has been a visiting professor at Columbia University. Born in 1942, Rogers' entrepreneurial efforts started early in Demopolis, Alabama, where lie was reared. He had his first job at age five, picking up bottles at baseball games. At age six, he won the concession to sell soft drinks and peanuts at Little League games. His father lent him one hundred dollars to buy a peanut parcher, which put Rogers in business. Five years later, after taking out profits along the way, he paid off his start-up loan and had a hundred dollars in the bank.
Winning a scholarship to Yale, Rogers was coxswain on the crew. Toward the end of his four years there, he received an academic scholarship to Oxford, where he attended Balliol College and studied politics, philosophy, and economics. He also became the first person from Demopolis ever to cox the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race on the Thames. It was during the summer of 1964, while working for Dominick & Dominick, that Rogers fell in love with Wall Street. And that's exactly where he headed after Oxford and a stint in the Army.
After apprenticing with Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder in the early 1970s. Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained more than 4000%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire - at age 37. However, he didn't remain idle.
Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS's 'The Dreyfus Roundtable' and FNN's 'The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers'. At the same time, he was laying the groundwork for an around-the-world motorcycle trip.
In 1990-1992, Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: with a companion motorcycling 65,065 miles across six continents, a feat that landed them in the Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, he constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas. He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers. Rogers showed one nation after the next in which gradually weakening currencies and political structures have suddenly collapsed, resulting in total national ruin. He gets to the heart of what's driving successful nations and economies upward and what's slashing troubled ones downward.
Incidentally, Rogers found the peanut parcher in his parents' attic a few years back. It still works.
Not satisfied with an earlier record-setting trip around the world atop a motorcycle, for which TIME called him the “Indiana Jones of finance,” Rogers embarked with his fiancée, Paige Parker, and a one-of-a-kind Mercedes Benz, on a new adventure to chronicle the world during the turn of the Millennium–1999-2001. They completed the 116-country, 152,000-mile overland trip, setting another Guinness World Record and getting married along the way. Rogers writes about his amazing travels and discoveries in Adventure Capitalist: How I Drove Around the World for Three Years in a Yellow Mercedes, Visited 116 Countries, Invested Globally, Set a Guinness World Record, and Ate an Iguana, which will be published in Spring 2003.
Roger’s previous trip around the world was no less impressive. As a small-town southern boy (his hometown was so small that his family’s phone number was just “5”) with a passion for motorcycling, Rogers had always dreamed of taking a trip around the world on his bike. In 1990 he did just that, setting out not only to travel, but to learn about the world’s developing countries and investment markets first hand. It took nearly two years, but he drove 65,067 miles on land and traveled thousands more by sea, air, barge and rail across six continents, setting a world record for land travel along the way. Investment Biker was the story of this extraordinary trip and the world economy–getting to the heart of what drives successful nations and economies upward and what sends troubled ones downward.
During both of his exhilarating trips, Rogers talked to businessmen, bankers, investors and local citizens in order to get a better sense of each country’s infrastructure and investment possibilities. It’s no wonder, then, that he has racked up huge profits in markets that Wall Street didn’t know existed; unlike most people, he actually visits these places before he invests.
Bringing these journeys to life at the lecture podium, Rogers offers individuals and corporations alike a lively, ground-level analysis of tomorrow’s economic gold mines, while thrilling them with stories of his exciting adventures. He mixes wit with sometimes contrarian wisdom that offers new and enlightened ways to view our world.
One of the nation’s most acclaimed and successful financial experts, Rogers grew up in Demopolis, Alabama. He got started in business at the age of six, selling peanuts and soft drinks at Little League games. He graduated from Yale University and studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University, where he discovered his love for Wall Street and investing.
After a spectacular career as a hedge fund manager and investor, Rogers is sometimes a visiting professor at Columbia University. He is a regular contributor to Worth magazine and a business correspondent for Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto, in addition to CNBC. His forecasts are featured in Barron’s, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, TIME, The Washington Post and many other domestic and international publications.
