Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with… — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should… — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity. — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury… — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to… — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a… — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already… — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought… — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others… — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and… — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions. — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life. — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch. — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life. — Vladimir Potanin Copy Share Image
