When the food at home is so tasty, why go out and eat?
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAI reflected a lot, I thought a lot on my 50th birthday. It has been one of the most important birthdays in my life, not in terms of celebration but in terms of retrospect.
More Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Quotes
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When there’s doom and gloom, don’t forget there’s darkness before dawn.
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Insurance, pension reforms are going to be extremely important for the stock market because the kind of money we’ll get from that is unbelievable.
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I don’t think Indian e-commerce companies have an evolved business model.
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I don’t want to lecture anybody, I would only say this to my fellow people would be to give, however small. Give what your pocket permits. I don’t think a person who is giving Rs 10, is giving less than me.
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I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong.
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I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age.
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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.
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You cannot artificially curb gold imports beyond a point. But I am hopeful it will happen because the rupee depreciation should by itself lead to a large growth in exports and some compression of imports.
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I think the Covid-19 crisis has been blown out of proportion and has created an unnecessary fear psychosis.
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I have far less than what people think, but far more than I need.
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Bull markets are Test matches and not 50-over games.
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Markets go up not because there is abundance of buyers, but because there is a lack of sellers.
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See, I’m a risk taker. If I feel very opinionated, I can really put the money on the table.
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What is too popular may not be profitable. Don’t invest in B2C companies, instead invest in B2B companies.
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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.
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I do not think, like people say, that I am a guru or I know everything.
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The typical conditions for the birth of a bull market are here: you have a changed country, you have a deep fall in growth and everybody is perplexed by the rise of stocks.
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The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.
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My father was always not concerned about the wealth I have, but every year he would ask me, how much have you given in charity? And how much taxes have you paid?
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I am always capital short. If I see the opportunity, I will get the money.
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I started my life with Rs 5,000.
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Ultimately savings have to go somewhere and I think they will find their home in financial markets and within financial markets, a large part in equity.
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I myself am a private equity investor.
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Markets tend to shake you up before a bull run.
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I want to work in water resources, as I think creating a string of check dams and utilizing water better is far more cost-effective than large stand-alone dams.
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Impossible is the word for fools in my dictionary.
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