But I can tell you markets are like women, always commanding, always mysterious, always volatile, always exciting and it is not a joke.
RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALAMy 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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All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them.
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Bull markets are Test matches and not 50-over games.
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I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?
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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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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 think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age.
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I do not think, like people say, that I am a guru or I know everything.
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There can be no greater well wisher for me in life than my mother.
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Insurance, pension reforms are going to be extremely important for the stock market because the kind of money we’ll get from that is unbelievable.
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When the food at home is so tasty, why go out and eat?
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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.
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In commodities, when prices go up, demand goes down. In stocks, when prices go up, demand goes up.
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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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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.
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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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What is too popular may not be profitable. Don’t invest in B2C companies, instead invest in B2B companies.
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What India needs is ease of doing business and inherent faith in the ability of Indians to catch an opportunity.
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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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I made many mistakes but my triumphs have received far greater publicity than my failures.
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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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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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Markets tend to shake you up before a bull run.
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What India needs for prosperity is just ease of doing business.
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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?
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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.
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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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