Top 60 Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Quotes

What is too popular may not be profitable. Don’t invest in B2C companies, instead invest in B2B companies.

I am always capital short. If I see the opportunity, I will get the money.

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.

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 don’t want to lecture anybody, I would only say this to my fellow people would be to give, however small. Give what your pocket permits. I don’t think a person who is giving Rs 10, is giving less than me.

Impossible is the word for fools in my dictionary.

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.

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

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

I am very opinionated and sometimes a very irritating character but, I have learnt that the quest to learn is a journey, not a destination.

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

Children malnourished at age 5 tend to suffer permanent physical and mental damage. So if I can save a child from malnutrition, I find it has an extremely favorable risk-reward ratio – the cost I incur versus the overall benefit that I can bring to society.

I have a drink everyday in the evening.

I am extremely bullish in the longer period.

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.

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

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

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.

I do not think Tesla can last but that does not mean I am going to short it.

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

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.

The government needs to send out a message to the business community that ‘we are on your side.’

I watch a lot of TV dramas.

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

One thing which keeps me apart is that I have got guts. I may have Rs 1,000 in my bank but if I think the deal is worth a crore – I will do it.

Growth comes from chaos, not order.

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

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

Films are getting expensive by the day. They are making more money by the day.

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.

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.

Markets tend to shake you up before a bull run.

I want to give more time to my children, my family, to my health.

I cannot say no for anything to my daughter.

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

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

When there’s doom and gloom, don’t forget there’s darkness before dawn.

If I have a fever, I take a Crocin but my wife calls a doctor, my mother calls a doctor. Similarly, investing is not something which a doctor or a lawyer or Internet specialist can really understand. Take professional advice, plan.

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 love to read and watch movies.

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

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.

When the food at home is so tasty, why go out and eat?

All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them.

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

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

I want to work in water resources, as I think creating a string of check dams and utilizing water better is far more cost-effective than large stand-alone dams.

You know, a balance-sheet is like a bikini, it shows more but it hides what is vital. I learnt to read a balance sheet and then I got fascinated by stocks.

The markets are like a weather; you may not like it but you have to bear it.

If you have a company called x and today you feel the price is very high. Next year it could perform very well but the price may not perform. So in the stock market what happens is buy on the rumor, sell on the news.

In India, one has to have faith in equity. What are the alternatives – real estate, debt? If debt can give you 6 percent, equity can give you 15 percent.

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.

When you become larger, the methods you use, the information you have, and people who assist you in attaining your goals should change.

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

I found the stock market very intriguing because prices used to fluctuate, I used to wonder why the price fluctuates.

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

Learning English in Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns places the person ahead of the curve. I’m sorry to say but that’s the reality.

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.

I started my life with Rs 5,000.