A Gift to My Children, Jim Rogers
A Gift to My Children, Jim Rogers
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A Gift to My Children
A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

Author: Jim Rogers

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 1 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/12/2009


Synopsis

What makes for a successful investor? More important, what makes for a happy and meaningful life? According to legendary investor Jim Rogers, the road to financial success and the road to a meaningful life are one and the same. In A Gift to My Children, Rogers lays out his advice to young people on how to achieve the financial success they need to live their dreams.

A Gift to My Children is anchored by the two basic rules Rogers invests—and lives—by. The first is that you have to see the world up close if you're going to understand how it works, and the second is that you must always question conventional wisdom. Using a mix of stories from his childhood in Alabama, as well as his experiences at Yale, Oxford, in the army, in his world travels, and over the course of his investing career, Rogers explains how he has applied these principles in his own life and why they have made him so wildly successful.

An accessible, entertaining, story-driven guide to a happy and successful life, A Gift to My Children will introduce Jim Rogers to a new generation.

About Jim Rogers

Jim Rogers cofounded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. Since then, he has served as a sometime professor of finance at Columbia University's business school and as a media commentator worldwide. He is the author of Hot Commodities, Adventure Capitalist, and Investment Biker. He lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on October 10, 2018

So cutesy! A successful investor gives worldly advice to his daughters. A lot of it we know, most of it, probably. Doesn't worsen it, though. Some things need to be reiterated again and again for us (and our kids, especially!) to pay enough attention to! Very short, very quick and very experienced. T......more

Goodreads review by Liong on August 07, 2022

First of all, this is a good advice book for life and investing. We can pick up some good lessons. A simple book and easy to read but some of the examples are outdated and should be reviewed from time to time. The author did mention that everything is changing. Everything. This is the vital point. Eve......more

Goodreads review by Erwin on February 02, 2012

Jim Rogers, excellent as ever. This is a very short read, but it is something that everyone should read, and one day when I have children, they will definitely read this book --- ideally, yearly. I'm fortunate, in that it seems that these things do come naturally to me, but Roger's has done a great j......more

Goodreads review by David on March 02, 2011

A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing. Legendary investor Jim Rogers co-foundered the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1970; then he retired at the age of 37, he spent a number of years traveling the world by motorcycle and later traveling the world with his wife by car.......more

Goodreads review by Fellini on February 11, 2015

Небольшая книжка с очевидными советами: постоянно учитесь, не следуйте за толпой, анализируйте ситуацию, не бегайте за мальчиками, пусть они за вами бегают. Обычно родители говорят это вслух, а папаша-инвестор решил выпустить книгу, полагаясь на силу печатного слова. Но кажется мне, что до подобных......more