“I think the Covid-19 crisis has been blown out of proportion and has created an unnecessary fear psychosis.”

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.

I myself am a private equity investor.

Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.

I started posting covers online and having this crazy determination about what I wanted to do and just went for it. I was like, ‘Okay, no one else can create my future for me, and no one can get what I want for me, so I have to go out and get it myself.’

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.