Figuring Out with Raj Shamani

"To replace the US dollar as the world's primary reserve asset, you need an alternative economy that provides equally deep, completely open, and legally predictable sovereign bond markets. Neither the Euro nor the Chinese Renminbi currently offers that institutional combination, which is why the dollar will remain dominant for at least the next twenty years."

"When you have 50 crore in the bank before your product even works, you solve problems by throwing money at them instead of using your brain."

"I bought gadgets nobody needed and a car that broke down the following week. Anyone who tells you they were disciplined with money at 21 is rewriting history."

"Protect your downside relentlessly. The upside takes care of itself if you survive long enough to participate in compound growth."

"Hesitation is the ultimate dream-killer. In the five seconds between having an instinct to act and your brain killing that idea with doubt, there is a tiny window of neurobiological control. If you don't move physically within those five seconds, your subconscious will rationalize inaction every single time."