Mikhail Khodorkovsky quotes
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“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 concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.”
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“Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.”
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“My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.”
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“What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.”
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“My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.”
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“I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.”
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“I established my bank in 1988.”
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“I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.”
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“To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.”
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“A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.”
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“I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.”
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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 very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.”
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“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 duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.”
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“Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.”
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“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 today.”
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