There is only one way to go: up. I like to find cheap assets with problems. It gives me power.

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.

There is nothing like feeling truly "awake" and aware of my life and what it means to me. So I look ahead and think, "There is still so much to be done, and I will continue to make the most of it.

They hadn’t been good months. About as ugly as a wet warthog and as messed up as a bumblebee in a snowstorm.

Death is every mortal’s life to be alive!

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance

I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.

I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.

We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.

When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?