num_pages: 112
description: Hes the swashbuckling world traveler and legendary investor who made his fortune before he was forty. Now the bestselling author of A Bull in China Hot Commodities  and Adventure Capitalist shares a heartfelt indispensable guide for his daughters (and all young investors) to find success and happiness. In A Gift to My Children  Jim Rogers offers advice with his trademark candor and confidence but this time he adds paternal compassion protectiveness and love. Rogers reveals how to learn from his triumphs and mistakes in order to achieve a prosperous well-lived life. For  Trust your own Rogers sensed Chinas true potential way back in the 1980s at a time when most analysts were highly skeptical of its prospects for growth. Focus on what you Rogers was five when he started collecting empty bottles at baseball games instead of playing. Be Coming to Yale from rural Alabama and in over his head Rogers never stopped studying and wound up with a scholarship to Oxford. See the In 1990 Rogers traveled through six continents by motorcycle gaining a global perspective and learning how to evaluate prospects in rapidly developing countries such as Brazil Russia India and China. Nothing is really anything deemed innovative or unprecedented is usually just overhyped as in the case of the Internet or TV airplanes and railroads before it And not a bit off the subject and very Boys will need you more than youll need them!Wise and warm accessible and inspiring A Gift to My Children is a great gift for all those just starting to invest in their futures.
language: English
title: A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing
publisher: Random House