“I started my life with Rs 5,000.”

But I can tell you markets are like women, always commanding, always mysterious, always volatile, always exciting and it is not a joke.

You can never predict how market will react. You can model it. You may try to predict it, but weather and markets and risk, only God knows because only he has seen tomorrow.

If you have a company called x and today you feel the price is very high. Next year it could perform very well but the price may not perform. So in the stock market what happens is buy on the rumor, sell on the news.

What India needs for prosperity is just ease of doing business.

I am very opinionated and sometimes a very irritating character but, I have learnt that the quest to learn is a journey, not a destination.

Markets go up not because there is abundance of buyers, but because there is a lack of sellers.

When you become larger, the methods you use, the information you have, and people who assist you in attaining your goals should change.

My father was always not concerned about the wealth I have, but every year he would ask me, how much have you given in charity? And how much taxes have you paid?

All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them.

Insurance, pension reforms are going to be extremely important for the stock market because the kind of money we’ll get from that is unbelievable.

I am always capital short. If I see the opportunity, I will get the money.

Success should not make you think you are God’s gift to mankind. You should never forget that you are what you are because God chose you to be there.

The world is not going to fall as long as there is confidence in governments and in banking institutions and the financial system.

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.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

Maybe we could begin entwined – not whole – but one again.

The happy ending is that it is not ending.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’

It’s a win-win situation when you make your debut with a superstar like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, or Sunny Deol. The audience walks in to watch the actors they idolise; they also end up noticing beginners like me.

I couldn’t experience an end with you, because you have always been a beginning to something new every day.

The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.