Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling business/adventure book, Investment Biker , which has already sold more than 200,000 copies.
Before you invest another dollar anywhere in the world (including the United States), read this book by the man Time magazine calls “the Indiana Jones of finance.”
Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he co-founded the Quantum Fund. Investment Biker is the fascinating story of Rogers’s global motorcycle journey/investing trip, with hardheaded advice on the current state and future direction of international economies that will guide and inspire investors interested in foreign markets.

Drive . . . and grow rich!
The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist , legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves that the best way to profit from the global situation is to see the world mile by mile. “While I have never patronized a prostitute,” he writes, “I know that one can learn more about a country from speaking to the madam of a brothel or a black marketeer than from meeting a foreign minister.”
Behind the wheel of a sunburst-yellow, custom-built convertible Mercedes, Rogers and his fiancée, Paige Parker, began their “Millennium Adventure” on January 1, 1999, from Iceland. They traveled through 116 countries, including many where most have rarely ventured, such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Angola, Sudan, Congo, Colombia, and East Timor. They drove through war zones, deserts, jungles, epidemics, and blizzards. They had many narrow escapes.
They camped with nomads and camels in the western Sahara. They ate silkworms, iguanas, snakes, termites, guinea pigs, porcupines, crocodiles, and grasshoppers.
Best of all, they saw the real world from the ground up—the only vantage point from which it can be truly understood—economically, politically, and socially.
Here are just a few of the author’s conclusions:
• The new commodity bull market has started.
• The twenty-first century will belong to China.
• There is a dramatic shortage of women developing in Asia.
• Pakistan is on the verge of disintegrating.
• India, like many other large nations, will break into several countries.
• The Euro is doomed to fail.
• There are fortunes to be made in Angola.
• Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are a scam.
• Bolivia is a comer after decades of instability, thanks to gigantic amounts of natural gas.
Adventure Capitalist is the most opinionated, sprawling, adventurous journey you’re likely to take within the pages of a book—the perfect read for armchair adventurers, global investors, car enthusiasts, and anyone interested in seeing the world and understanding it as it really is.
From the Hardcover edition.

The next bull market is here. It’s not in stocks. It’s not in bonds. It’s in commodities –and some smart investors will be riding that bull to record returns in the next decade.
Before Jim Rogers hit the road to write his bestselling books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist, he was one of the world’s most successful investors. He cofounded the Quantum Fund and made so much money that he never needed to work again. Yet despite his success, Rogers has never written a book of practical investment advice–until now.
In Hot Commodities, Rogers offers the lowdown on the most lucrative markets for today and tomorrow. In 1998, gliding under the radar, a bull market in commodities began. Rogers thinks it’s going to continue for at least fifteen years–and he’s put his money where his mouth is: In 1998, he started his own commodities index fund. It’s up 165% since then, with more than $200 million invested, and it’s the single-best performing index fund in the world in any asset class. Less risky than stocks and less sluggish than bonds,, commodities are where the money is–and will be in the years ahead. Rogers’s strategies are simple and straightforward. You can start small–a few thousand dollars will suffice. It’s all about putting your money into stuff you understand, the basic materials of everyday life, like coal, sugar, cotton, corn, or crude oil. Once you recognize the cyclical and historical trading patterns outlined here, you’ll be on your way.
In language that is both colorful and accessible, but Rogers explains why the world of commodity investing can be one of the simplest of all–and how commodities are the bases by which investors can value companies, markets, and whole economies. To be a truly great investor is to know something about commodities.
For small investors and high rollers alike, Hot Commodities is as good as gold . . . or lead, or aluminum, which are some of the commodities Rogers says could be as rewarding for investors.

If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of a oethe greatest economic boom since Englanda (TM)s Industrial Revolution.a

許多年輕父母會擔心，對於孩子的未來，應該有什麼樣的準備以及想像？其實正確態度的培養才是關鍵！吉姆．羅傑斯（Jim Rogers）以書信的方式，向女兒娓娓道出自己一路走來所累積的成功經驗和投資哲學。
成功投資家這回不是教你看準哪種商品，而是融合投資財管智慧和為人父親的愛，傳授小女兒們面對未來世界，應該抱持怎樣的生活學以及投資學態度，才能建立屬於自己的成功人生。
羅傑斯這位「富爸爸」給寶貝女兒的12個箴言是：
(1)不要讓別人影響你──假如每個人都嘲笑你的想法，這就是可能成功的指標！
(2)專注於你所愛──在真正熱愛的工作上努力，就會找到你的夢想
(3)普通常識並不是那麼普通──大眾社會相信的常常是錯的，不要盲目聽信別人的話
(4)將世界納入你的眼界──保持開放的心，做個世界公民！
(5)研讀哲學，學會思考──訓練自己去檢驗每一種概念、每一個事實
(6)學習歷史──因為以前發生過的事，以後也還會再發生
(7)這是中國的世紀，去學中文！──參與一個偉大國家的再現，購買這個國家的未來！
(8)真正認識自己──了解你的弱點和覺察你的錯誤，才能找到對的路
(9)認出改變，擁抱改變──改變的功能就像催化劑，保持覺知是重要的功課
(10)面對未來──看得見未來的人可以累積財富
(11)反眾道而行──檢視事實和機會，不隨烏合之眾心理起舞
(12)幸運女神只眷顧持續努力的人──用功讀書，學得越多你才知道你懂得越少
父母希望為孩子建立的不只是金山銀山，而是一條孩子自己有能力挖掘探索的寶山之路！本書分享的金玉良言，正是最好的傳家禮物。

He’s the swashbuckling world traveler and legendary investor who made his fortune before he was forty. Now the bestselling author of A Bull in China, Hot Commodities , and Adventure Capitalist shares a heartfelt, indispensable guide for his daughters (and all young investors) to find success and happiness. In A Gift to My Children , Jim Rogers offers advice with his trademark candor and confidence, but this time he adds paternal compassion, protectiveness, and love. Rogers reveals how to learn from his triumphs and mistakes in order to achieve a prosperous, well-lived life. For example:
• Trust your own judgment: Rogers sensed China’s true potential way back in the 1980s, at a time when most analysts were highly skeptical of its prospects for growth.
• Focus on what you like: Rogers was five when he started collecting empty bottles at baseball games instead of playing.
• Be persistent: Coming to Yale from rural Alabama, and in over his head, Rogers never stopped studying and wound up with a scholarship to Oxford.
• See the world: In 1990, Rogers traveled through six continents by motorcycle, gaining a global perspective and learning how to evaluate prospects in rapidly developing countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
• Nothing is really new: anything deemed “innovative” or “unprecedented” is usually just overhyped, as in the case of the Internet or TV, airplanes, and railroads before it
• And not a bit off the subject, and very important: Boys will need you more than you’ll need them!
Wise and warm, accessible and inspiring, A Gift to My Children is a great gift for all those just starting to invest in their futures.
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投资大师罗杰斯给宝贝女儿的12封信

The next bull market is here. It’s not in stocks. It’s not in bonds. It’s in commodities –and some smart investors will be riding that bull to record returns in the next decade.
Before Jim Rogers hit the road to write his bestselling books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist, he was one of the world’s most successful investors. He cofounded the Quantum Fund and made so much money that he never needed to work again. Yet despite his success, Rogers has never written a book of practical investment advice–until now.
In Hot Commodities, Rogers offers the lowdown on the most lucrative markets for today and tomorrow. In 1998, gliding under the radar, a bull market in commodities began. Rogers thinks it’s going to continue for at least fifteen years–and he’s put his money where his mouth is: In 1998, he started his own commodities index fund. It’s up 165% since then, with more than $200 million invested, and it’s the single-best performing index fund in the world in any asset class. Less risky than stocks and less sluggish than bonds,, commodities are where the money is–and will be in the years ahead. Rogers’s strategies are simple and straightforward. You can start small–a few thousand dollars will suffice. It’s all about putting your money into stuff you understand, the basic materials of everyday life, like coal, sugar, cotton, corn, or crude oil. Once you recognize the cyclical and historical trading patterns outlined here, you’ll be on your way.
In language that is both colorful and accessible, but Rogers explains why the world of commodity investing can be one of the simplest of all–and how commodities are the bases by which investors can value companies, markets, and whole economies. To be a truly great investor is to know something about commodities.
For small investors and high rollers alike, Hot Commodities is as good as gold . . . or lead, or aluminum, which are some of the commodities Rogers says could be as rewarding for investors.

Profiting from China without getting burned is currently an obsession with the international investment community. The estimated size of the Chinese economy has just been revised upwards, making it the 4th largest in the world behind the US, Japan and Germany, and ahead of the UK but the idea that investing in China is a sure-fire, get-rich-quick investment story is dangerously misleading. The author of the bestselling "Investment Biker, Adventure Capitalist, and Hot Commodities", is providing a book that provides a window into what will soon be the most vital, most lucrative market of our time: China.While the Chinese economy has had an annual average growth of 9.4 percent since 1978, and despite the ongoing speculation about China's future, its stock market is now emerging from a six-year low. As the Chinese economy continues to lumber toward a free market system - and as the Chinese government inevitably unpegs its currency and opens its stock market to more foreign investment, Rogers foresees an abundance of opportunities for investors.In this book, he shows readers not only how to take advantage of China's coming dominance - what, where, how, and when to buy - but how China will impact individual companies, markets, and economies around the world. 'Nobody with blue eyes has ever made money investing in China', the old saying goes. Jim Rogers aims to disprove this adage. Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age 37. Since then, he has served as a sometime professor of finance at Columbia University's business school, and as a media commentator. He appears twice a week on Fox Business News, and is the author of three immensely successful books.

Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.
Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world -- studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up-- has enthralled readers, investors and Wall Street aficionados for two decades in such books as "Investment Biker," "Adventure Capitalist," "Hot Commodities" and "A Bull In China" . In his engaging memoir "Street Smarts," Rogers offers pithy commentary from a lifetime of adventure, from his early years growing up a naive kid in Demopolis, Alabama, to his fledgling career on Wall Street, to his cofounding the wildly successful Quantum Fund. Rogers always had a restless curiosity to experience and understand the world around him.
In "Street Smarts," he takes us through the highlights of his life in the financial markets, from his school days at Yale and Oxford -- where despite the fact that he didn't have enough money to afford the appropriate pair of shoes, he coxed the crew and helped to win the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race as well as the Thames Cup, the first of his three Guiness World Records -- to his first heady taste of Wall Street in the mid - 1960s, and his years helping to run the most successful hedge fund on Wall Street. As a result of his extraordinary success with the Quantum Fund, Rogers was able to retire at the age of thirty-seven. Since then he has taught classes in finance at Columbia University, hosted television programs, and traveled the world seeing firsthand how revolutions in Chile affect coffee prices in Seattle, and how shortages of copper in Africa affect electricity brownouts in Ohio.
In the course of his new book, Rogers offers often surprising observations on how the world works - and what trends he sees in the future. He explains why Asia will be the dominant economic force in the twenty-first century - and how he and his wife and two daughters moved to Singapore to prepare his family for the coming changes.. He discusses why America and the European Union are in decline, and what we need to do to right our economy and society. The age of Wall Street, Rogers claims, when the finance industry drove 25% of America's growth, is over. Tomorrow's economy will be driven by those who make things - food, energy, goods and consumables.
Regarded as one of the most astute investors Wall Street has ever known, Jim Rogers once again is at his acerbic and storytelling best.

《热门商品投资:量子基金创始人的投资真经》讲述股票低头，商品抬头——商品投资市场已进入长期牛市！未来10年，商品投资市场将是最火爆的大牛市！从历史看，商品价格与股票、债券等金融工具价格走向呈现负相关。股票价格下跌，商品价格就上场，反之亦然。这意味着如果不投资商品，你就不是真正的多样化投资。商品价格即使在经济倒退时也能上涨。商品投资回报率境长速度超过通贷膨胀增长速度。股票价格可能为零，而商品不会。跟公司股票不一样，商品是实物，对某些人总会有价值。亚洲经济持续增长，将带来世界范围所有商品需求的强劲增长。特别是中国，迅速从一个商品出口国变为了商品进口国，需要消费大是铁矿石、铜、石油、大豆和其他原材料。

If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England’s Industrial Revolution.”
In this indispensable new book, one of the world’s most successful investors, Jim Rogers, brings his unerring investment acumen to bear on this huge and unruly land now being opened to the world and exploding in potential.
Rogers didn’t just wake up a Sinophile yesterday. He’s been tracking the Chinese economy since he first went to China in 1984 in preparation for his round-the-world motorcycle trip and then again, later, when he saw Shanghai’s newly reopened stock exchange (which looked like an OTB office). In the decades that followed–especially in recent years, with the easing of Communist party financial dictates–the facts speak for themselves:
• The Chinese economy’s growth rate has averaged 9 percent since the start of the 1980s.
• China’s savings rate is over 35 percent (in America, it’s 2 percent).
• 40 percent of China’s output goes to exports (so there’s no crippling foreign debt).
• $60 billion a year in direct foreign investment, combined with a trade surplus, has brought Beijing’s foreign currency reserves to over $1 trillion.
• China’s fixed assets–ports, bridges, and roads–double every two and a half years.
In short, if projections hold, China will surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy in as little as twenty years. But the time to act is now. In A Bull in China , you’ll learn what industries offer the newest and best opportunities, from power, energy, and agriculture to tourism, water, and infrastructure. In his trademark down-to-earth style, Rogers demystifies the state policies that are driving earnings and innovation, takes the intimidation factor out of the A-shares, B-shares, and ADRs of Chinese offerings, and encourages any reader to trust his or her own expertise (if you’re a car mechanic, check out their auto industry).

A Bull in China also features fascinating profiles of “Red Chip” companies, such as Yantu Changyu, China’s largest winemaker, which sells a “Healthy Liquor” line mixed with herbal medicines. Plus, if you want to export something to China yourself–or even buy land there–Rogers tells you the steps you need to take.
No other book–and no other author–can better help you benefit from the new Chinese revolution. Jim Rogers shows you how to make the “amazing energy, potential, and entrepreneurial spirit of a billion people” work for you.

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This book is about the author′s amazing trip across six continents and the world economy and society. It discusses who′s sinking and who′s swimming, which countries are on the rise and which are collapsing, where you can make a million and where you could lose one. Every place he stopped on the trip, Rogers talked to businessmen, bankers, investors and regular people. He learned reams of information that you′d never learn from reading the financial pages of any periodical. Delivers a thrilling account of the journey of a lifetime and provides tips that would enable you to pay for a trip just like it.

A gripping tale of adventure, danger and humor, peppered with investment tips from a Wall Street legend The best–selling author of Investment Biker takes a fascinating journey through the world′s economic situation in a convertible yellow Mercedes. This is the motivating story of entrepreneur Jim Rogers, dubbed "the Indiana Jones of finance" by Time magazine, who made his fortune playing the stock market and then embarked on his lifelong dream adventure. Together with his fiancee, Paige Parker, he set out on a three–year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness world record for the longest continuous car journey. Their trip winds its way through 116 countries – through blizzards, deserts, epidemics and war zones – to discover failing economies and the new boom countries not from dry and potentially flawed statistics, but by experiencing life itself. This is a gripping tale of travel and adventure; along the way they encounter danger, love and farce. It is also a highly readable account of world economies: you won′t find a more enjoyable way to be introduced to the investment potential of Bolivia, or the cultural changes afoot in North Korea. Finally it is also an inward journey in which Rogers moves from the restless traveler to husband and father, hoping one day to introduce his daughter to his own passion for travel. JIM ROGERS entered the investment business in 1968 with $600 dollars in his pocket. By 1980, at 37 years of age, he had left Wall Street with enough money to satisfy a lifelong appetite for adventure.

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　　「我寫這本書的主要目的是要讓大家了解，我們怎麼會走到今天這種地步，個人要怎麼自我教育，以便為未來做準備。我會跟你分享我一輩子從事金融、投資與冒險之旅所得到的見解，跟你分享我成長之際所學到的教訓，說明我從黑土地帶的泥土出發，走到地球另一邊這個東南亞城市國家的終生之旅中，怎麼把整個世界當成我家後院的經驗。」──羅傑斯
　　商品教父羅傑斯從街頭學到的人生智慧
　　被稱為華爾街金童、金融界印第安那瓊斯的羅傑斯，37歲就已賺足一生財富。
　　他花5年時間環遊世界兩次、曾經創下獲利超過40倍的紀錄，眼光總是比人看得遠，預先掌握下一個牛市。1998年，在股市熱潮中慧眼獨具投資商品市場，不但躲過網路泡沫並成為商品多頭市場的先行者。
　　來自窮鄉僻壤的羅傑斯，在書中娓娓道來童年往事，父親教他錢不是長在樹上的道理，5歲開始在棒球場撿瓶子賣錢做生意，6歲時以分期付款方式買第一個棒球手套，他以學習永不足夠的態度環遊世界兩次，旅行冒險鍛鍊他對全球趨勢的判斷。他堅信，市場永遠是錯的，必須獨立思考、拋開羊群心理，幸運總是會跟著做好準備的人，他認為市場下一個多頭明星是農業、觀光業，並看好北韓與緬甸的未來。
　　60歲為人父後，羅傑斯舉家移民新加坡，他在書中告訴兩個摯愛的女兒與他的學生，要研讀哲學、學會思考，要學習歷史、掌握未來，本書是羅傑斯一生的智慧、投資的態度，面對未來世界，探索成功人生永不足夠。
作者簡介
吉姆．羅傑斯（Jim Rogers）
　　1942年出生於美國阿拉巴馬州，5歲開始在棒球場撿瓶子賣錢做生意，6歲時以分期付款方式買第一個棒球手套，中學畢業以四年獎學金進入耶魯大學歷史系，又至牛津大學巴里歐學院攻讀政治經濟哲學。
　　羅傑斯22歲進入華爾街工作，與人稱金融大鱷的索羅斯（George Soros）共事，之後兩人創設「量子基金」。1970年代，量子基金成長42倍，當時標普500指數上漲卻不到47％。
　　被稱為華爾街金童、華爾街印第安那瓊斯的羅傑斯，37歲已賺足一生財富，退休後是活躍的投資趨勢專家。
　　羅傑斯花五年時間環遊世界兩次，一次騎機車，另一次駕駛汽車。第一次旅程超過10萬英里，行經六大洲。1999至2001年從事千禧年探險，與妻子佩姬駕車旅行116個國家，經歷全球15場內戰，行經15.2萬英里，創下金氏世界紀錄。
　　他的著作包括：《羅傑斯教你投資熱門商品》《中國很牛》（以上為時報出版）、《投資騎士》《資本家的冒險》《投資大師羅傑斯給寶貝女兒的十二封信》。
　　56歲創立羅傑斯國際商品指數（RICI），60歲後為人父、移居新加坡，他說：「除了樂樂、小蜜蜂和佩姬，我不希望跟別人共進晚餐，不希望跟別人一起做其他事。」現在，家人是羅傑斯探索與快樂的泉源。
譯者簡介
劉道捷
　　台大外文系畢業，曾任經濟日報國際新聞中心主任，現為專職譯者。
　　譯作包括《石油世紀》、《能源大探索》、《30年來最好投資機會》、《創造驚喜，就大賣》（以上皆為時報出版）。
　　另譯《投機客養成教育》、《期貨新知》、《股票作手回憶錄》、《全球投資漫談》、《倪德厚夫的投機術》、《成功從轉型開始》、《基業長青》、《下一個社會》、《野蠻的下一個社會》、《猶太人致富金律》、《資本家的冒險》、《打敗大盤的獲利公式》等書。
　　譯作曾獲中國時報、聯合報年度十大好書獎及其他獎項。