Had the Share Prices Moved up – I would have enjoyed the profit with the Family.

7^th November 2025

Had the Share Prices Moved up – I would have enjoyed the profit with the Family.

Dear Fellow Investors,

Namaste! Human Psychology is deep and when it comes to investments – it becomes more difficult to understand. Yesterday, I had a talk with my old colleague after about 30 years or so. Naturally, the talk always touches the stocks. He said he invested in a company and that company is doing very fine. But the stock is not moving. 

What made me think was his sentence : - “Had the Share Prices moved up – I would have enjoyed the profit with the Family or bought something”.

It is natural to expect profits in investing and plan to enjoy once we achieve them. 

I have come across many such examples – when the investors would have hoped to spend the profit on something and the profit never came. He blamed his luck for buying such shares.

How smart investors would operate? 

I feel blessed that I have got the smartest of the MENTORS to guide me early in my life and even today. You need Mentor / Guru at every step in your life – however successful you may be. Even Rakesh used to take input from Damani Ji after making Rs.40000 Crs.  

Thanks to my mentors - I have learned the best of the secrets in the investment game. Let me share my own example.  

iPhone 4s was launched in 2011. I wanted to buy the same. So, I said to my mentor – If I make Rs.50000 in x company’s investments – I will give a gift of that phone to myself. 

He looked at me for some time and asked – how much money do you want to invest in X company? I said Rs.5 lakhs. He said -   – You do one thing – buy a phone now for Rs.50000 first and invest the balance amount of Rs.4.5 lakhs. 

I said – I want to buy from PROFIT. He said – the company you are planning to invest in is going to earn a profit of 200% in the coming 3 years, I don’t want you to sell the same for Rs.50000 profit. I liked his idea and he was proven 100% right by 2014. 

When I asked him the logic of the same – he explained – if you invest with goals – you will keep on seeing the prices daily. When they don’t move up – you will feel frustrated. If they move up – you will sell it. Both ways will invite the pain. 

When you buy the mobile now – you will be happy to start with. With the happiness of owning the latest mobile when you invest – you will have no hurry to sell it for some Rs.50000 odd amount. You will wait patiently with your stocks till it reaches its full potential.  

I have observed the same policy in the best of the restaurants. Whenever I have gone before they open up – I have seen that waiters and support staff eat first. The owner of the restaurant feeds the staff first so that they can serve the food to the customers happily. Since their stomachs are full – their mind is on services and not on the customer’s food. 

The whole point is PAY Yourself First. Most Middle-class parents first pay for their kids  / family and then if something remains – they may use it. 99% of the case – nothing remains. When such parents retire – they expect their kids to take care of them. But most of the time KIDS are also struggling and they may not be able to take care of their needs – the way their parents would have expected. This leads to utter frustration in old age and feelings of failures. 

What CHANAKYA taught me? 

He said – don’t make a show off of your food / wife and money. You will save them from EVIL EYES. The same way keep your eyes off your really good investments. Your eyes may turn to EVIL EYE and you will sell it early. 

 

I am not very smart so I follow my mentors without using my brains and I am fully happy as I have made tons of money with their wisdom. 

If you like their wisdom – you can try and share your results with me. 

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Hitesh Parikh.