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James "Jim" Rogers (19 Oct 1942 -) grew up in Demopolis, Alabama, and got started in business at the age of five, selling peanuts. He got his first job on Wall Street in 1964 during the summer between college and Oxford University. When he got the job he "didn't know anything" about Wall Street, he "didn't know the difference between stocks and bonds", he "didn't even know that there was a difference between stocks and bonds", but he "instantly fell in love" with that kind of work.

Business

In 1970 he founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros. During the following 10 years the fund gained 4200% while American stock markets were "flat" (they ended the decade where they had begun). It was one of the first truly international funds. Ten years later, in 1980, he decided to "retire".

Since then he's been a guest professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. In 1989 and 1990 he was the moderator of WCBS's "The Dreyfus Roundtable" and FNN's "The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers".

In 1998 he founded the Rogers International Commodity Index, it has increased 185% since Aug. 1, 1998 (2004).

RICI returns

July 31 1998 - July 30 2004 (6 years) (closing prices)

Travels

In the 1980s he traveled on motorcycle through China. In 1990-1992 he traveled through China again, and around the world, on motorcycle, 65,065 miles across six continents, which was picked up in the Guinness Book of World Records. Between 1-1-1999 and 5-2-2002 he did another Guinness World Record journey through through 116 countries, and 245,000 kilometers. The trip began in Iceland, where they were about to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Leif Eriksson's first trip to America. On January 5th 2002 they were back in New York City and their home on Riverside Drive.

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