Famous Investors

Lessons from the legends: what built their wealth, what tripped them up, and what’s worth borrowing.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala: Strategy & Lessons

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala: Strategy & Lessons

How the Big Bull built ₹40,000 cr from a small punt on Tata Tea, and the discipline most retail misses.

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Beginner
Radhakishan Damani: The Quiet Billionaire

Radhakishan Damani: The Quiet Billionaire

How a shy man with no MBA outlasted a generation of louder traders, and built DMart into a retail giant.

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Beginner
Vijay Kedia: The Small-Cap Whisperer

Vijay Kedia: The Small-Cap Whisperer

From conductor jobs to a multi-thousand crore portfolio. The SMILE framework that powers Kedia’s small-cap picks.

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Beginner
Ramesh Damani: Patience as Strategy

Ramesh Damani: Patience as Strategy

Three decades on Dalal Street and counting. The investing philosophy of CNBC’s most-quoted veteran.

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Beginner
Ashish Kacholia: The Small-Cap King

Ashish Kacholia: The Small-Cap King

How the founder of Lucky Securities became India’s most-tracked small-cap hunter, and what he looks for.

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Beginner
Porinju Veliyath: The Value Contrarian

Porinju Veliyath: The Value Contrarian

Buying the unloved, the overlooked, the broken. The Equity Intelligence playbook, and where it has stumbled.

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Beginner
Nemish Shah: The Enam Founder

Nemish Shah: The Enam Founder

The original long-term Indian investor. Why Nemish Shah holds for decades, and what that costs him in the short run.

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Beginner
Benjamin Graham: The Father of Value

Benjamin Graham: The Father of Value

The framework behind every value investor on this page, Mr. Market, margin of safety, and the intelligent investor.

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Beginner
Charlie Munger: Mental Models

Charlie Munger: Mental Models

The latticework of mental models. Inversion, second-order thinking, and the discipline of saying “no” more than “yes”.

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Intermediate
Warren Buffett: Investing Principles

Warren Buffett: Investing Principles

From a paper route to Berkshire Hathaway. The principles that compounded ₹100 into a personal fortune of ₹100,000 cr+.

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Beginner
Dolly Khanna: The Quiet Compounder

Dolly Khanna: The Quiet Compounder

A husband-wife portfolio worth hundreds of crores, built one mid-cap at a time, with disclosures every retail watches.

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Beginner
Peter Lynch: Invest in What You Know

Peter Lynch: Invest in What You Know

The Magellan Fund manager who beat the S&P for 13 straight years, by buying companies he could explain to a child.

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Beginner