If you develop just one quality, no one can stop you from making tons of money.

9^th May 2026

 

If you develop just one quality, no one can stop you from making tons of money.

 

Dear All,

 

Jai Hind! Tons of books have been written, and hours of advice have been given on success in investments. I was looking for just one quality that separates the most successful people from the average ones. Let me share the most important quality and give you a fitting example. 

 

Abilities to Think: - 

 

Normal readers will say that we too can think. Let me elaborate. We are all full of thoughts at all times. We act like ROBOTS due to the thoughts given in our minds. Abilities to think is very rare among normal people. Because those who can think will never remain NORMAL for life. 

  

I have a neighbour who keeps a cat as a pet. One day he brought 1.5kg of chicken and asked his wife to cook it while he called his friends. It was Sunday and the friends came in the afternoon. His wife had hidden the chicken as because she was not interested in sharing it with friends. So, she said, "Before I could cook the chicken this CAT finished all the chicken so we will have to eat the DAL-CHAWAL." 

 

My neighbour could have done two things: abused his wife in front of his friends for her carelessness or cursed the CAT for eating all the chicken.

 

But he was not a normal guy. He took the most innovative action. He removed the Weighing machine from his cupboard  and kept the CAT on the same. The weighing machine showed 1.5 kg weight. He asked his wife – if this is the CAT’s weight, where is the CHICKEN? And if this is the CHICKEN’s weight, where is the CAT? 

 

His wife didn’t expect this and she agreed with her cheating. 

 

If you read the above – the husband really thought rather than just to react. We rarely think like this. 

 

How to cultivate the THINKING abilities rather than REACTING like a ROBOT? 

 

Just look into your daily behaviour as minutely as you can. 

 

1. The way you get up.

2. The way you pray to your God.

3. The way you do your daily routine. 

4. The way you deal with your regular business or job,

5. The way you eat – drink. 

6. The way you communicate with your near and dear.

 

You may find that 99.99% of the above daily work/behaviour you are doing is on AUTO MODE rather than thinking like my neighbour. 

 

Most of your behaviour is based on BELIEF rather than on THINKING. Belief and thinking are opposite to each other. Those who believe will not like to think and those who are thinking they may end up challenging the belief. 

 

So, if you want to cultivate the thinking abilities – you will have to be NEUTRAL / INDIFFERENT / IMPARTIAL / OBJECTIVE. The Hindi word is TATASTHA – the one who is sitting on the BANK of RIVER and OBSERVING the flow of water. 

Without being TATASTHA, you can’t THINK in real terms. Now, it’s not easy to be NEUTRAL if you are not supported by the 3^rd factor. That factor is AWARENESS. If you are living a life of HABIT / UNWARENESS / BIASED / PARTIAL – you are not AWARE to start with. When you are not AWARE – you can’t be NEUTRAL and when you are not NEUTRAL – you can’t THINK in real terms. 

 

How is this Quality applied by the TOP GUYS?

 

Buddha said – what you think you are. You become what your thoughts are. EDWARD DE BONO spent his life teaching us about how to think? To think is the best skill one can have. 

 

Just think about the ADANI and AMBANI. Do they know all the intricacies of their businesses? No. They have the thinking mind and they ask point blank questions to their CEO’s and get their work done and have control also. 

 

Best of the traders and investors also think. They don’t trade based on thoughts and feelings. They trade on the DATA. In 2023 – MODI Ji said PSU’s are good investments in the parliaments and tom dick and harry bought the PSU stocks. Look what happened to the prices in 2025 and 2026. They have gone down like anything. 

 

Now, MODI JI was not asking you to invest and those who bought those PSU shares are also not saying or complaining as they have bought those shares without thinking or doing their homework. Even now, they are not thinking – they are just cursing their luck. Very few lucky people would have sold PSU shares at the TOP before they fell. Now they will BELIEVE that they are GREAT Investors. They are not thinking investors - they were just lucky. 

 

I come across many questions about high PE Market FANCIED stocks from my clients. They want to buy something or the other all the time. They can’t keep their cash aside for some time. All they ask me – this stock is moving – should I BUY? I will say let me study and come back to you. When I say it’s not fitting my criteria – they will buy without telling me or curse me for stopping them from so called earning possibilities. I always think before doing anything rather than thinking after doing it. I am ready to take blame for my thinking and credit for my thinking. 

 

Most people when the shares go down – which we have seen in the last 18 months – they start asking the questions about the logic of purchasing a particular share. This is a waste of their time. This leads to frustration and bad taste about the market. 

 

There are other groups of investors – who have been brainwashed that you are a small investor and you can’t invest on your own. You must invest through MUTUAL FUNDS only. Those who are investing in mutual funds are not thinking. They don’t want to think. They just want the profit and so they invest through SIP and Funds. They are okay with lower returns. 

 

The guy who is not thinking and investing may make tons of money someday due to pure luck but the MUTUAL FUND investors will remain normal for life for sure. They can’t expect their money to multiply 10X to 20X in 5-10 years. 

 

Why are people not ready to think?

 

When you think on your own, you have to take action. When you take actions and they backfire – you have to take the blame on yourself. To take blame on oneself is a very courageous act. Very few people can do it. 

 

Many times people agree logically with what you say but they will not apply in their life as they don’t have guts to follow what they logically agree but emotionally they can’t fight with their people. Let me share an example of my USA based client. 

 

A client of mine called me for a VASTU advice for his proposed new house in October 2024. He was building from the scratch. He was already having one house but on the insistence of his wife – he was forced to build a new house. He is associated with me from 2006, so I had a personal bonding rather than just professional relationships. 

 

The land parcel and floor plan was not matching the VASTU principles. Moreover, he was taking a loan to build the new house. 

So, I simply said – Sell this LAND. Buy GOLD – it was around USD 2800 in October 2024. I asked him we will sell gold by DIWALI 2025 and you buy the land as per VASTU and build your home. I assured him – you will not have to take a LOAN if he follows my advice. I explained the same to his WIFE also. 

 

They both agreed with me logically but emotionally they lack the courage to follow my advice. They build the house on loan!! They missed the great money making opportunities of life. Gold touched USD 5000. We asked to sell around Rs.1.75-1.85 lakhs in local market in early 2026 to our clients.  

 

This is an example of BELIEF oriented guy. They are not open to THINK. 

 

 What NEXT? 

 

Big money making is very easy. Provided you are ready to think with a fresh mind. You are ready to learn the investment as a subject rather than just to take a tip and invest. 

 

If you are not ready to learn to think – if at all you make big money due to sheer luck or timely tips – write it down today – your money will not stay with you for generations.

 

Learn to think. 

 

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Hitesh Parikh.