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

Not being dogmatic has helped me become a better stock-picker.

What happens is the market really booms when people really leverage and they really leverage when they make a lot of money.

I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age.

People will laugh at me, but when they ask me to make a wish for the next life, I will say I want the same parents, same brother and sister, same wife, same friends.

I am not afraid of making mistakes. But my mistakes were those that I could afford. That’s very important: mistakes will happen but you must ensure that you keep them within limits you can afford.

What India needs is ease of doing business and inherent faith in the ability of Indians to catch an opportunity.

I don’t think Indian e-commerce companies have an evolved business model.

These dire predictions of COVID are behind us. Covid is getting milder and people are learning to treat it better. The percentage of deaths is coming down. We are learning to live with it.

Bull markets are Test matches and not 50-over games.

I started my life with Rs 5,000.

Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived.

There has to be a period of consolidation in the IT industry. Similarly in pharma, I think India is going to be a world power. We have the lowest cost, good technology, Indian companies are gaining size.

See, I’m a risk taker. If I feel very opinionated, I can really put the money on the table.

Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls.

My true gods are my parents. I am what I am because of them.

The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. It’s simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it.

Work while others are wishing.

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.