吉姆·羅傑斯生於1942年，5歲時找到第一份工作，在棒球場拾空瓶子。長大後獲得耶魯大學奬學金，入耶魯大學學習，曾是學校賽艇隊的舵手。從耶魯大學畢業後，又就讀於牛津大學的巴裏奧學院。曾在美國陸軍服務。退役後進入華爾街工作，與另一閤夥人共同成立瞭麵嚮全球的量子基金。此後的10年裏，該基金盈利超過4000%，而同時期的標準普爾指數隻上漲瞭不足50%。羅傑斯37歲那年決定退休，可人並沒有閑著。

除瞭繼續經營自己的股本外，羅傑斯兼任哥倫比亞大學商學院的教授，講授金融課程。此外，他還是哥倫比亞廣播公司辦的《德賴弗斯圓桌訪談》節目和FNN主辦的《追求利潤》節目的主持人。

羅傑斯為自己的韆禧年之旅（1999-20...

作者作品:

· 《風險投資傢環球遊記》。

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.