If you know how rich you are, you are not a billionaire.

Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.

Money is not the thing that drives me. I like to develop assets to create value. No one cares how rich you are or what your ranking is in Forbes magazine.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

I think women make the same mistake with me all the time. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

I never count my money. I think that's your job.

Nobody was interested in me before I bought the Nets.

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.

Frankly speaking, I like women. In my heart, I am still teenager. And I am very open and I don't want to hide this.

I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.

Christ birth is the beginning of love for mankind.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.

The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.