“The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.”

When people talk to you in such glowing terms, that is the time to be very, very alert because the worst of the mistakes are made in the best of the times.

In India, one has to have faith in equity. What are the alternatives – real estate, debt? If debt can give you 6 percent, equity can give you 15 percent.

Not being dogmatic has helped me become a better stock-picker.

What happens is the market really booms when people really leverage and they really leverage when they make a lot of money.

I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age.

People will laugh at me, but when they ask me to make a wish for the next life, I will say I want the same parents, same brother and sister, same wife, same friends.

I am not afraid of making mistakes. But my mistakes were those that I could afford. That’s very important: mistakes will happen but you must ensure that you keep them within limits you can afford.

What India needs is ease of doing business and inherent faith in the ability of Indians to catch an opportunity.

I don’t think Indian e-commerce companies have an evolved business model.

These dire predictions of COVID are behind us. Covid is getting milder and people are learning to treat it better. The percentage of deaths is coming down. We are learning to live with it.

Bull markets are Test matches and not 50-over games.

I started my life with Rs 5,000.

Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived.

There has to be a period of consolidation in the IT industry. Similarly in pharma, I think India is going to be a world power. We have the lowest cost, good technology, Indian companies are gaining size.

See, I’m a risk taker. If I feel very opinionated, I can really put the money on the table.

Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls.

The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Don’t be curious of matters that don’t concern you; never speak of them, and don’t ask about them.

It’s necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.

In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.

But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe – and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.