When there’s doom and gloom, don’t forget there’s darkness before dawn.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAI’m not a clone of anybody. I’m Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.
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I have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love.
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Bull markets are Test matches and not 50-over games.
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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.
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Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls.
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It is not that Covid is going to impede the progress of humanity. It is not as much a changing event as it was being predicted, according to me.
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I am interested in government spend quality, as it accounts for the biggest chunk of the social spending pie. Hundreds of foundations put together cannot equal what the government can spend.
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Markets tend to shake you up before a bull run.
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I myself am a private equity investor.
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You can never predict how market will react. You can model it. You may try to predict it, but weather and markets and risk, only God knows because only he has seen tomorrow.
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My true gods are my parents. I am what I am because of them.
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I have far less than what people think, but far more than I need.
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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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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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The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.
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Films are getting expensive by the day. They are making more money by the day.
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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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The markets are like a weather; you may not like it but you have to bear it.
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I think when markets go up and there is no manipulation in markets and people question the market going up and it keeps going up, that is a true bull market.
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There can be no greater well wisher for me in life than my mother.
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I don’t understand the business models of Flipkart and Uber. See no logic in people saying business models like that of Flipkart will flourish but that of D-Mart will not.
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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.
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I don’t think Indian e-commerce companies have an evolved business model.
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Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.
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I am always capital short. If I see the opportunity, I will get the money.
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My personal opinion is that when the economy does well, anybody who has a deposit franchise will survive and grow because how can you lend if you do not have a deposit franchise?
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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.
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