“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.”

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.

My personal opinion is that when the economy does well, anybody who has a deposit franchise will survive and grow because how can you lend if you do not have a deposit franchise?

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.

I do not think, like people say, that I am a guru or I know everything.

I don’t understand the business models of Flipkart and Uber. See no logic in people saying business models like that of Flipkart will flourish but that of D-Mart will not.

Films are getting expensive by the day. They are making more money by the day.

I found the stock market very intriguing because prices used to fluctuate, I used to wonder why the price fluctuates.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

Man’s experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.

Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

Learn from the past and share your experiences with others.

I find, even though it’s raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I’m just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.