“I’m not a clone of anybody. I’m Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.”

What leads to a growth – skills, demographics, natural resources, democracy, entrepreneurship – India has in abundant measure.

In a marriage, in a relationship there should not be your money and my money. It has to be our money.

You can’t make money on borrowed knowledge. If following Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was all it took to make money, a lot more people would be rich. It requires patience and you learn from mistakes.

I myself am a private equity investor.

I’ve lived the world on my own terms. I do what I enjoy. I enjoy what I do.

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’ll never forget where I’m from, never forget my roots. It doesn’t matter where I live. I’m English, simple as that.

Your behaviors are usually a reflection of your identity.

Research has shown that once a person believes in a particular aspect of their identity, they are more likely to act in alignment with that belief.

I’m the original take-orders girl.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

I’m Irish. We think sideways.

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

With outcome-based habits, the focus is on what you want to achieve. With identity-based habits, the focus is on who you wish to become.