Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes

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• Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is…
• Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
• I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.
• A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
• To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.
• I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.
• I established my bank in 1988.
• I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
• I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
• My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.
• What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
• I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done…
• My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
• Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
• Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the…
• The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally…
• This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.
• As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

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