Jim Rogers : Kerry , you fly into the JFK and you know you are in a third world airport it used to be that it was the top of the league and then New York was , you get in a third world taxi on third world roads and you actually go to a five stars hotel in new york it is a five star third world hotel , unfortunately our standards of living have declined a lot just in the five years I have been gone much less in the past ten , twenty years
Jim Rogers started trading the stock market with $600 in 1968.In 1973 he formed the Quantum Fund with the legendary investor George Soros before retiring, a multi millionaire at the age of 37. Rogers and Soros helped steer the fund to a miraculous 4,200% return over the 10 year span of the fund while the S&P 500 returned just 47%.