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.

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

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.

I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby.

There is a light in every soul.

The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.