Legendary investor jim rogers gives us his view of the world on a 22month, 52country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling businessadventure book, investment biker, which has already sold more than 200,000 copies. For me it was very interesting to read his way to become on of the most successful guy on wall street. 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. A naive kid from demopolis, alabama, rogers had a restless curiosity to experience the world. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read street smarts. Street smarts by jim rogers key takeaways edmond chan. Wall street legend and bestselling author jim rogers offers investing. Street smarts summary storyshots free book summaries. Since then, hes taught at columbia and travelled around the world twice setting guinness world records in the process. Jim rogers, born 19 oct 1942, is the author of the best seller, investment biker.
I found most of arguments compelling yet simplistic without many. Rogers always had a restless curiosity to experience and understand the world around him. The author begins with his first significant voyage. For where chapters one to seven of jim rogerss new book, street smarts, are a wonderful howtogetrich and ragstoriches story of his life so far including a description of his wedding in henleyonthames, a town where i also got married he really pulls out the economic meat cleaver in chapter eight. Adventures on the road and in the markets, in which he discusses his life as an investor, retiring at age 37, and his postwall street adventures.
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