“If you have a company called x and today you feel the price is very high. Next year it could perform very well but the price may not perform. So in the stock market what happens is buy on the rumor, sell on the news.”

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.

I 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.

I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?

There can be no greater well wisher for me in life than my mother.

In commodities, when prices go up, demand goes down. In stocks, when prices go up, demand goes up.

Growth comes from chaos, not order.

When there’s doom and gloom, don’t forget there’s darkness before dawn.

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.

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.

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.

Not being dogmatic has helped me become a better stock-picker.

What happens is the market really booms when people really leverage and they really leverage when they make a lot of money.

I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age.

People will laugh at me, but when they ask me to make a wish for the next life, I will say I want the same parents, same brother and sister, same wife, same friends.

I am not afraid of making mistakes. But my mistakes were those that I could afford. That’s very important: mistakes will happen but you must ensure that you keep them within limits you can afford.

What India needs is ease of doing business and inherent faith in the ability of Indians to catch an opportunity.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.

For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

How lonely it is with tears and heartbreak for company.

Misery loves company, perhaps I’m misery myself, wishing for someone to sit beside me and distract me from myself.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

I am an addict And I’m hooked On dopamine. Terrified to be alone so for companionship, I feign.

maybe all we need is some good music, good company, and bad dancing to remind us what it is to be alive