“What India needs for prosperity is just ease of doing business.”

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.

I’ve lived the world on my own terms. I do what I enjoy. I enjoy what I do.

I’m not afraid of losing money, I’m afraid of sour relationships.

The markets are like a weather; you may not like it but you have to bear it.

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.

A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.

Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.