Mikhail Khodorkovsky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Hard Work #Income #Your Future
Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Fighting #Today #Management
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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

#Past #Names #Decision
My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Parent #Factories
I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Ordinary #Prisoner
I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Furniture #Heavy #Dependable
I established my bank in 1988.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Conviction
To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Guilt #Crime
A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Fate #Russia #Inevitable
I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Home #Relaxation
Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Moving #Russia #Goal
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.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Essence #Duration #Today
Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Party #Views #Political
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.
-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Government #President #Today

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