The 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 JHUNJHUNWALAIn commodities, when prices go up, demand goes down. In stocks, when prices go up, demand goes up.
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Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.
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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.
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What is too popular may not be profitable. Don’t invest in B2C companies, instead invest in B2B companies.
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Films are getting expensive by the day. They are making more money by the day.
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You know, a balance-sheet is like a bikini, it shows more but it hides what is vital. I learnt to read a balance sheet and then I got fascinated by stocks.
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What happens is the market really booms when people really leverage and they really leverage when they make a lot of money.
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Bull markets are Test matches and not 50-over games.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When the food at home is so tasty, why go out and eat?
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Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived.
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When there’s doom and gloom, don’t forget there’s darkness before dawn.
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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.
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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.
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I found the stock market very intriguing because prices used to fluctuate, I used to wonder why the price fluctuates.
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The government needs to send out a message to the business community that ‘we are on your side.’
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Markets go up not because there is abundance of buyers, but because there is a lack of sellers.
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I’ve lived the world on my own terms. I do what I enjoy. I enjoy what I do.
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I have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love.
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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.
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My father was also interested in stocks. When I was a young child, he and his friends would drink in the evening and discuss about the stock market.
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When you become larger, the methods you use, the information you have, and people who assist you in attaining your goals should change.
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In 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.
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What India needs for prosperity is just ease of doing business.
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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.
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