Wealth creation is a time consuming, easy to understand and very difficult to implement process. There are no cut fast rules on how to create wealth.

Deepak Parekh, Uday Kotak, Rashesh Shah, Nirmal Jain, Raheja, Hiranandani, Narayanamurthy, Nandan Nilenkani, Aditya Puri, Sachin Tendulkar, Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, are all people who have created wealth by the greatest method.

Run a good business, leverage with people and brand building. Leverage with geography and borrowed funds….then take the company public. By doing this every rupee of earning gets valued at 30 for Mr. Deepak Parekh (Hdfc has a p/e of 30) and similar numbers for the others. These people made their money from equities, debt, commodities and of course listing their companies! THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO CREATE WEALTH.

Oh that is not true for Aditya Puri, Sachin Tendulkar, Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, did you say? Well true, but AP too benefited from the listing of Hdfc bank, right? Similarly the others too have created lots of wealth by investing in listed companies. Face it EVEN for these people, their WEALTH has come from INVESTING, but the capital to Invest came from Earnings and Savings.

I am not talking that league, yet. Let us see what all you should know – we will start with 10 steps:

1. Understand the Power of Compounding: it looks odd to realise that the power of compounding is NOT taught well at school! They give you some simple examples – rarely are you taught the POWER! Even people working in financial services do not appreciate the power of compounding. Ignore this only at YOUR OWN PERIL.

2. Understand the Power of NOW: LEARN the power of starting to compound as soon as possible in life. If you have not understood, NO TIME LIKE TODAY..pick up the pen, call the advisor, click on the net – whateva…just start, NOW, TODAY.

3. Understand the Power of Regularity – start a SIP AND make sure you do it regularly – not missing a single month. If by chance you do miss a month of investing, immediately pick up a cheque and send it in! At the end of a YEAR you should have invested 12* Amount being invested every month. If suddenly you have money, top up the SAME account.

4. Understand the power of Not Touching the Money for ‘n’ years: Capital and Wealth creation needs long periods of growth. If you do not touch the money for any sundry purpose, leave it untouched. This helps in compounding. Remember this for life!

5. Understand the power of LEARNING: If you are willing to wish to invest in equities – directly or through mutual funds, learn as much as possible about equities. Invest in learning, before you invest your money.

6. If you do not (or will not) learn about equities, never mind, learn the power of indexing in equities!

7. Learn simple things like keeping your accounts in an excel sheet and keep track of the paise….the rupee will take care of itself. Track your income, collect all monies due, track your expenses, track your investing and returns.

8. For events which you know invest. For sad events which MAY happen, insure. You never know….

9.Remember delayed gratification may not be easy, learn it. Food which gives 30 seconds of pleasure on the tongue stays in your waist for 30 years. I understand this….but when I see a sweet I still fall for it. Knowing and implementing are completely different animals. Alas!

10. Invest in education, training, health, travel and fun. Very important to remember do not forget the present for doing something great in the future. The future is important, but the present is vital.

Related Articles:

Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

  1. Subra Ji,
    NTPC has rewarded from 114 to 164 in short span ( many are rewarded much). But i want you to point NTPC since it was discussed in the post and comments column. As part of wealth creation, what would be your stand on your NTPC holding?

  2. Karthik

    first of all it is very difficult to run your own portfolio from blogs! I did buy NTPC at 114 and was lucky to sell it at 160. Frankly I think I might buy it back at 145, and try selling it off at a higher price. By the way I have some positional NTPC bought at 83-4 and happy to hold on for life. However if it hits a high (say 220) and I do not have a trading position, i will use the investment quantity to go short and buy it back again…..oops Complicated is it not?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>