“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.”

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.

My true gods are my parents. I am what I am because of them.

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

What is too popular may not be profitable. Don’t invest in B2C companies, instead invest in B2B companies.

I want to give more time to my children, my family, to my health.

In my 25-30 years of experience in the markets, just as you cannot have a good relationship with a woman by bullying her, you cannot have a good relationship with the market by trying to bully it or say that you are the king. Market is king.

Markets tend to shake you up before a bull run.

Impossible is the word for fools in my dictionary.

What leads to a growth – skills, demographics, natural resources, democracy, entrepreneurship – India has in abundant measure.

In a marriage, in a relationship there should not be your money and my money. It has to be our money.

You can’t make money on borrowed knowledge. If following Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was all it took to make money, a lot more people would be rich. It requires patience and you learn from mistakes.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

It’s sad to be constantly judged for every move you make after your first success. If you wear your hair differently, you have changed.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.