I started my life with Rs 5,000.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAI started my life with Rs 5,000.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAI’ve lived the world on my own terms. I do what I enjoy. I enjoy what I do.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAI have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAI myself am a private equity investor.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAThe biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAThe biggest thing that limits India’s growth is democracy, but it is needed. We cannot overrule it.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAThe world is not going to fall as long as there is confidence in governments and in banking institutions and the financial system.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAI am very opinionated and sometimes a very irritating character but, I have learnt that the quest to learn is a journey, not a destination.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALADraw 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.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAWhen the food at home is so tasty, why go out and eat?
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAMy 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?
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALASuccess 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.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAMy true gods are my parents. I am what I am because of them.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAIn India, one has to have faith in equity. What are the alternatives – real estate, debt? If debt can give you 6 percent, equity can give you 15 percent.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAYou 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.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAThe journey to limit crony capitalism: It’s a journey, it’s not a destination. Slowly but surely, in India, crony capitalism has died and governance is what brings about real growth.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALA