“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.”

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.

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.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.

We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.

I often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that’s a lot of time to be doing something that you’re not absolutely invested in or in love with.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

You know, a balance-sheet is like a bikini, it shows more but it hides what is vital. I learnt to read a balance sheet and then I got fascinated by stocks.

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

The first stock I bought was Tata Tea, the first stock where I made big money was also Tata Tea.

Bull markets have valuation froth and bull markets have commitment forth. Now just by valuation froth, bull markets do not end.