Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes

• 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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• 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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• I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

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• I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

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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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• I’m not an ordinary prisoner.

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• Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

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• My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

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• My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

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• To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

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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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• Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

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• This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

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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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• 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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• A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky (17)

Birth:	26th June, 1963
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Businessman, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer

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