“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.”

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.

When the food at home is so tasty, why go out and eat?

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.

Draw a balance between the present and the future and one advice I give to every young Indian – the most difficult thing in India, urban India, is housing. So first thing that you do is try and buy house as that gives a great sense of security.

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.

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.

I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong.

The biggest thing that limits India’s growth is democracy, but it is needed. We cannot overrule it.

I have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth.

Individually, I always want to give the most.

When you touch – don’t take. Touch people only when you are giving something – reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you’ll get back from the most unexpected sources.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you, but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.