Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers. 

3/5 rating.

Book #94 of 2019. Read August 9, 2019.

This book follows Jim Rogers’ 3-year trip around the world through 116 countries, recounting his business and travel stories along the way. As the title suggests, Jim is a pure capitalist through and through. This left me agreeing with some of his ideas but being appalled at other times at the opinions this view caused him to have. If you can take the whole book with a grain of salt, it is definitely interesting to hear about different cultures through the eyes of a man who has done well for himself financially.

Quotes:

“It is when things start to go wrong and people look for someone to blame that one’s religion, culture, and race become noticeable.”

“The steel industry in the United States has been going on this way for fifty years. Every few years the industry persuades the government to protect us from the foreigners. ‘We just need to reorganize.’ But instead of reorganizing, getting more efficient, and figuring out what the foreigners are doing right, politicians just keep upping the protection.”

“Instead of talking(ital) about the new South Africa, we have to build(ital) the new South Africa, said Mbeki. We have to stop talking. We have talked enough. We spend all our time going to conferences, and nobody is doing (ital) anything.”

“Whenever you hear somebody tell you that investing is different this time, grab your money and run. It is never different.”

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