Jim Rogers's Single most important piece of advice
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This billionare advice let your children and grandchildren learn Chinese.
Jim Rogers with daughter Hilton Augusta Parker Rogers, born May 30 2003.She learn Chinese when she is 18 months old!!.
http://www2.aya.yale.edu/classes/yc1964/photogallery/rogers.htm
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/rogers1.html
The single most important piece of advice for you: Teach them Chinese. My baby girl is perfectly fluent in Chinese. I got a nany who only speaks Chinese to her. People think she is native, until they see her.
http://mrwavetheory.blogspot.com/2006/12/watch-jim-rogers-video-on-hot.html
Rogers just repeated this advice when he was interviewed recently and aired in Channel 8.Yes the Chinese TV.
When many migrate fr SG,this billionare just settle in SG (happily forever!)
Welcome.Mr Rogers!!
2.Forget to add.He want his daughter learn Chinese in order to have one more item in her CV 20 years later!!
3.This billionare advice let your children and grandchildren learn Chinese.Can be confirmed in black and white.
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I mean..if i was a billionaire..i would actually settle in SG "happily forever"..too bad i am not...
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Media that promotes figures like Rogers and Soros forget one thing, the most important thing is that there can never be a nation of millionaire investors.
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It does not take much to be a financial genius these days. Just accept as bible what Warren Buffet, George Soros, Alan Greenspan and now Jim Roger say .... and u will have the whole world's professionals in Finance & Investment dancing to your tune and doing exactly what u want them to do. Incidentally these same people mentioned here made their billions on Wall Street ..... and Wall Street was the cause of the Great Depression in the 30's, the Asian Financial Crisis in 1998 and today Wall Street's present to the world is the Subprime 'woes'. While the rest of world reel from all these Wall Street's efforts to 'beggar' the rest of the world, Wall Street Ceos still enjoying big salaries and fat bonuses while their companies are 'drowning' from mistakes they make ... all at the expense of their naive and stupid shareholders.
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Originally posted by noisylion:
lionnoisy in sgforums since May 2005. he cant use proper English for 34 months!!.
PM Lee told pple like lionnoisy to buck up, but he still dunt can. In world class country is dis acceptable?
http://www.goodenglish.org.sg/site/
SINGAPOREANS should strive to speak proper English and stop peppering daily conversations with local expressions if they want to keep their competitive edge, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Friday, May 13.
"Speak in full sentences, with proper sentences and cutting out all the 'lars' and lors' at the end of each sentence," Lee said at the launch of the city-state's fifth annual "Speak Good English" campaign.
The Cambridge-educated Lee said that, with three-quarters of Singapore's population English literate, the republic has significant competitive advantages over other Asian nations.
"It is important for all of us to speak good English, because English has become the lingua franca of international commerce," he said. "English is our bridge to the world and helps Singapore to maximise our opportunities."
Singaporeans speaking colloquial English will often end sentences with 'lah', 'lor' or 'mah' -- suffixes derived from local Chinese dialects.
They may also literally translate sentences from Mandarin to English, resulting in odd and grammatically incorrect phrases such as 'I go toilet' and 'You go where, ah?' -- when they actually mean 'Where are you going?'
'Talk cock, sing song, play mahjong,' means idle talk.
Children who quarrel are often heard to threaten each other with the words 'I don't friend you!', meaning 'You're not my friend anymore!'
Singlish (Singapore English) also features terms like "kiasu" (being afraid to lose) and "wowo king" (someone who cannot fire a rifle straight).
Lee also made special mention of text-messaging English, which is used by many of the city-state's handphone-crazy youngsters, saying it may affect the way they learn how to spell.
In text-message lingo, 'that' is spelled 'dat', 'i see' becomes 'ic' and 'ttyl' means 'talk to you later'.
"When our English becomes too mutated, we become unintelligible to others," Lee said. "We then have a big problem."
Lee suggested establishing proper English as a service standard at the workplace and urged all teachers and parents to be ambassadors of good spoken English.
Singapore, a former British colony, is host to thousands of multinational corporations and implements an annual campaign for citizens to speak proper English to keep its competitive edge.
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw05/050513af.htm
PM Lee just repeated this advice over and over again.Yes the lionnoisy still dunt can.
When many world country learn proper english, this lionnoisy still dunt can (unhappily forever!)
why lionnoisy? why?
2.Forget to add.lionoisy good english is still not one more item in his CV 20 years later!!
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Originally posted by kramnave:
I mean..if i was a billionaire..i would actually settle in SG "happily forever"..too bad i am not...
No one in the world could disagree with you.Just an example of those who choose to stay here.
How about showing examples of those who resigned from this island?
Those with eyes and some kind of IQ can understand that a billionaire can choose to migrate to anywhere he chooses because the world , this world, is based on Money. If you have 1 billion, there is no place where you cannot feel powerful.
Money rules the world.
A Billionaire can retire in any place that is rising in cost and that is already very costly. 'Costly' to common people who are employees. Even if costly to Employers who are just mere millionaires, it is still cheap to a BILLIONAIRE.
So few are billionaires.
Its quite unconvincing an example.
of all people in the world...
people need to check if their IQ is not zero.
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Why did this chap choose to live in Singapore? With his wealth, he can live anywhere in the world. Why Singapore?
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Originally posted by onlooker123:
Why did this chap choose to live in Singapore? With his wealth, he can live anywhere in the world. Why Singapore?
He is into commodities now. He believes in the China story. Moved to Asia because he wanted his family to learn mandarin. Chose to come Singapore because we are not polluted and we speak English as well as Mandarin. I suspect our low tax rates is a pull factor as well.
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Also, Singapore is regional base for CNN, CNBC, Broomsberg, etc and also one of main financial centre in the region where a lot of 'smart-ass' professionals in Finance & Investment are available to benefit from his 'wisdom' and dance to his tune to 'beggar' the region and in the process enrich himself further.
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Rogers said not just let your children learn Chinses,your grand children also.
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Originally posted by kramnave:
He is into commodities now. He believes in the China story. Moved to Asia because he wanted his family to learn mandarin. Chose to come Singapore because we are not polluted and we speak English as well as Mandarin. I suspect our low tax rates is a pull factor as well.
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Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Rogers said not just let your children learn Chinses,your grand children also.
You not just let your children learn English, your grand children also?Please answer the TAR-21 thread, you have been pretty quiet.
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Originally posted by TCH05:
Hong Kong income tax is lower and it is even closer to China.
he did want hk, but he saw the pollution and changed his mind...anycase, he's one of those old weirdo moneyman.....he was thrashing the fed for bailing bear sterns over the weekend... -
Originally posted by onlooker123:
Why did this chap choose to live in Singapore? With his wealth, he can live anywhere in the world. Why Singapore?
low tax, english speaking, and foreign friendly.
no matter what, a billionare is extremely mobile given the type of wealth at his disposal.
question is; will his grandson serve NS?
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How about flying his grandson to the states, then flying him back on a student pass?