Jim Rogers Quotes

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that’s not capitalism, that’s socialism for the rich.

Jim Rogers

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• The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Careless

• Avoid patent leather, pink, and crystals.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Pink
  • Leather
  • Patent

• I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Stop
  • Just
  • Origin

• I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • School
  • Think

• I am very blessed.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Blessed

• The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Vision
  • Internet

• In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Up
  • Children
  • Home

• PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Company

• In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Society
  • Free

• If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Matter

• To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • May
  • Way
  • Say

• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Want
  • Poetry
  • Personality

• I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Know
  • Focus
  • Fame

• Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Learning

• I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Career
  • Passion
  • Better

• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• When I talk about that Apple ecosystem, the ability to get one application to run across those five platforms is very difficult. In the future of Microsoft, using HTML5, IE9 and 10, the scalable OS, the ability to do that gets much, much easier.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Future
  • Difficult
  • Apple

• You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • History
  • Intervention
  • Implications

• I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.

  

  John Thune

• (Carmine Crocco) In such a crowd, so numerous and composed of such heterogeneous elements, it might have appeared almost absurd to look for discipline; but perfect discipline there was, for, whatever his other qualities might be, Crocco most undoubtedly was a 'ruler of men'. His word in that band was law, and the punishment of disaffection was death.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• There's this pressure to perform in your twenties - I think it comes from this whole generational foreshadowing that presumes there will be a whole other layer of things to worry about in your thirties.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Worry

• We have the most generous immigration policy, but what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Work
  • Society
  • Immigration

• If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that’s not capitalism, that’s socialism for the rich.

  

  Jim Rogers