Jim Rogers’ ’13 Lessons on Life and Investment’ to KUBS‘

Passion and patience are more important than a doctor’s degree.’ - Jim Rogers

Korea University Business School (KUBS) hosted a special lecture on ’13 Lessons on Life and Investment’ by Jim Rogers (James Beeland Rogers, Jr.) at the Korea University Inchon Memorial Hall Auditorium. Before the lecture, Dean Doo-Hee Lee of KUBS expressed his appreciation for Mr. Rogers’ visit by presenting him with an Honorary Plaque and Susㅇn chondo (map of Seoul). Designated as Treasure No. 853 of Korea, the Suson chondo was made by Jeong-Ho Kim in the 1840s and the original copy is currently preserved at the Korea University Museum.

During the lecture, Jim Rogers told the audience “Focus on your personal interests and views rather than a doctor’s degree or what others tell you to do” and stressed that “it’s important to decide on one’s dream firmly and to pioneer one’s life with passion and patience.” He also expressed that, “You can understand the change and flow of the world if you study history, and you can learn to think independently if you study philosophy” and that “one shouldn’t take history and philosophy lightly in order to think differently and develop a unique perspective.”

Called ‘The Indiana Jones of Finance’, Jim Rogers is currently the chairman of his own investment firm, Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, and is a Global Investment Expert that increased profits by 4200% after founding the Quantum Fund with George Soros. Not only that, his books “Investment Biker Around the World with Jim Rogers” and “Adventure Capitalist”, that he wrote after observing and analyzing the economy of the world from the investor’s point of view through his two round-the-world trips, have become bestsellers as well.