Anatoly Borisovich Chubais Quotes

• The diversification of the people’s demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

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• You’re not always able to choose.

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• You’re never able to please everybody, especially when you’re transforming a country like Russia.

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• You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn’t have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

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• These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable.

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• There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn’t be predicted by the state.

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• There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents’ protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.

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• There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

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• There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

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• The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

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• The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

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• The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

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• The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

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• Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

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• Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

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• Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

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• Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

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• It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

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• In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

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• If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

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Anatoly Borisovich Chubais (30)

Birth:	16th June, 1955
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Businessman, Economist, Politician

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Anatoly Borisovich Chubais was born in the town of Borisov in Belarus, which was then part of the Soviet Union. He is a Russian politician and businessman who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s. During this period, he was a key figure in introducing market economy and the principles of private ownership to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. From 1998 to 2008, he headed the state-owned electrical power monopoly RAO UES, while a 2004 survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Financial Times named him the world's 54th most respected business leader. Currently, he is the head of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation. He has been a member of the Advisory Council for JPMorgan Chase since September 2008 and a member of global board of advisers at the Council on Foreign Relations  since October 2012.

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