I don’t understand the business models of Flipkart and Uber. See no logic in people saying business models like that of Flipkart will flourish but that of D-Mart will not.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAI’d be lying if I said I didn’t like the money, but that’s not what motivates me.
More Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Quotes
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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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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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I’m not afraid of losing money, I’m afraid of sour relationships.
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I do not think, like people say, that I am a guru or I know everything.
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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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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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The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.
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You cannot artificially curb gold imports beyond a point. But I am hopeful it will happen because the rupee depreciation should by itself lead to a large growth in exports and some compression of imports.
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I am interested in government spend quality, as it accounts for the biggest chunk of the social spending pie. Hundreds of foundations put together cannot equal what the government can spend.
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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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Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls.
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I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong.
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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 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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Bull markets are Test matches and not 50-over games.
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