Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The biggest delusion of the oligarch is the thought that the authority wealth offers will outlive the society that gave it to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors. — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
I've never been an oligarch. The definition of an oligarch is someone who has co-operated with the government, and I never did. — Bidzina Ivanishvili 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
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Your desire for unrestrained comfort is the oligarch's superpower. Cut yourself off from luxury, and you'll cut off the oligarchs from their… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
All the time, Ukraine was an oligarch country. And all the time, oligarchs were together with the authorities. And this is the… — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
Being a Russian oligarch these days isn't easy. The best and brightest of them are in exile or in jail; others, after… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Rosneft, for instance, was mainly built upon capital stolen from [jailed oligarch Mikhail] Khodorkovsky's company, but the IPO was successful with many… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Where do oligarchs come from? They come from people's shallowness. When people stop being shallow, no oligarch shall get to grow, to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is… — Alexei Mordashov Copy Share Image
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent roads will be built. There… — Jack London Copy Share Image