What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

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.

I established my bank in 1988.

Liars are exhausting people.

To me, there's no great chef without a great team.

I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.

I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.