“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like the money, but that’s not what motivates me.”

Success 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.

The world is not going to fall as long as there is confidence in governments and in banking institutions and the financial system.

The first stock I bought was Tata Tea, the first stock where I made big money was also Tata Tea.

I think the Covid-19 crisis has been blown out of proportion and has created an unnecessary fear psychosis.

Bull markets have valuation froth and bull markets have commitment forth. Now just by valuation froth, bull markets do not end.

There is a digital revolution going on around the world and India is in better placed to tap the opportunity.

I made many mistakes but my triumphs have received far greater publicity than my failures.

I know film industry is not a very healthy place to be in.

Alternatives to oil are coming up. In the long run, it is not going to be as bleak as people are predicting but surely consumption of fuel by automobile sector is going to go down.

I do not do any trading internationally.

I have far less than what people think, but far more than I need.

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

Ultimately savings have to go somewhere and I think they will find their home in financial markets and within financial markets, a large part in equity.

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.

I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?

There can be no greater well wisher for me in life than my mother.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.