“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.”

There is a digital revolution going on around the world and India is in better placed to tap the opportunity.

I made many mistakes but my triumphs have received far greater publicity than my failures.

I know film industry is not a very healthy place to be in.

Alternatives to oil are coming up. In the long run, it is not going to be as bleak as people are predicting but surely consumption of fuel by automobile sector is going to go down.

I do not do any trading internationally.

I have far less than what people think, but far more than I need.

I’m not a clone of anybody. I’m Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.

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.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Love is desire for knowledge.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.

You don’t have to know everything about the mountain in front of you to take the next step.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that’s always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.