“Impossible is the word for fools in my dictionary.”

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

I think the Covid-19 crisis has been blown out of proportion and has created an unnecessary fear psychosis.

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

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.

I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

If I write a book where all I’ve ever experienced is success, people won’t take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

I’ve read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don’t even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I’d imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.