Some of Jim Rogers' best advice to his daughters from his book A Gift to My Children A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing are the following :
-- Conduct your own research and trust your own judgment.
-- Focus on what you yourself love.
-- Be persistent.
-- Broaden your horizons and see as much of the world as you can.
-- The most important thing you can learn is how to think and question everything you hear.
-- Study and learn from history.
-- Master more than one language - and make sure one of them is Mandarin.
-- Don't panic.
-- Take care of yourself and don't neglect the sunscreen.
-- Remember that boys need girls more than girls need boys.
Jim Rogers also known as Wall street king and the Indian Jones of International Finance is one of the world top investors. He co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros before he was thirty and retired at 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. Jim Rogers is a world traveller and venturous but when asked about his most important venture in life he always answers that it was fatherhood although he became father relatively at a late age ...
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