吉姆·罗杰斯生于1942年，5岁时找到第一份工作，在棒球场拾空瓶子。长大后获得耶鲁大学奖学金，入耶鲁大学学习，曾是学校赛艇队的舵手。从耶鲁大学毕业后，又就读于牛津大学的巴里奥学院。曾在美国陆军服务。退役后进入华尔街工作，与另一合伙人共同成立了面向全球的量子基金。此后的10年里，该基金盈利超过4000%，而同时期的标准普尔指数只上涨了不足50%。罗杰斯37岁那年决定退休，可人并没有闲着。

除了继续经营自己的股本外，罗杰斯兼任哥伦比亚大学商学院的教授，讲授金融课程。此外，他还是哥伦比亚广播公司办的《德赖弗斯圆桌访谈》节目和FNN主办的《追求利润》节目的主持人。

罗杰斯为自己的千禧年之旅（1999-20...

作者作品:

· 《风险投资家环球游记》。

A gripping tale of adventure, danger and humor, peppered with investment tips from a Wall Street legend The best–selling author of Investment Biker takes a fascinating journey through the world′s economic situation in a convertible yellow Mercedes. This is the motivating story of entrepreneur Jim Rogers, dubbed "the Indiana Jones of finance" by Time magazine, who made his fortune playing the stock market and then embarked on his lifelong dream adventure. Together with his fiancee, Paige Parker, he set out on a three–year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness world record for the longest continuous car journey. Their trip winds its way through 116 countries – through blizzards, deserts, epidemics and war zones – to discover failing economies and the new boom countries not from dry and potentially flawed statistics, but by experiencing life itself. This is a gripping tale of travel and adventure; along the way they encounter danger, love and farce. It is also a highly readable account of world economies: you won′t find a more enjoyable way to be introduced to the investment potential of Bolivia, or the cultural changes afoot in North Korea. Finally it is also an inward journey in which Rogers moves from the restless traveler to husband and father, hoping one day to introduce his daughter to his own passion for travel. JIM ROGERS entered the investment business in 1968 with $600 dollars in his pocket. By 1980, at 37 years of age, he had left Wall Street with enough money to satisfy a lifelong appetite for adventure.