Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes

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• 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

  Money, Hard Work, Responsibility

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

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Fighting, Today, Management

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• Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Dream, Fate, Ukraine

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• Putin regards me as the most dangerous person, and when they were releasing me from jail, the only condition was that I leave the country. And when they did push me out of the country, to make sure that I wouldn't come back, they opened up a criminal case against me - a new one.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Country, Dangerous

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I am working in my office. I've got a boss who tells me what to do. He's got a boss who tells him what to do. And above him is another boss who probably is telling my boss in the same way - or my boss' boss in the same way what to do. In actuality, this is not the way things work. Management science says that that kind of a chain doesn't work more than three levels up.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Office, Boss, Management

  Source: www.politico.com

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• 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

  Life, Money, Essence

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

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Home, Relaxation

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• To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Guilt, Crime

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• I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Ordinary, Prisoner

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• People expect some kinds of decisions from Putin that will help them see their own future. A significant part of the people that he relies on are quite content with him telling them that nothing is going to change. But that part of the elite that does want to see some changes and improvements are going to expect him to, in his next term, bring Russia back into the club of the great powers.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  People, Decision, Helping

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Navalny is doing a very important thing in his segment of society. Gudkov is a doing a very important thing in his segment of society. Yabloko, or more accurately, some of the leaders of the Yabloko party, are doing a very important job in their segment of the population, people such as Schlosberg. And our organization Open Russia is also doing important work with its segment of society, because those people who are focused on us, our segment, they're not part of those other segments.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Party, People, Leader

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There are people who are at fault for one or another problem. These people are very avaricious and self-serving. They're not doing it just to do it; they're doing it for the money. That money, they keep here. When you say, "We're going to find these people, these guilty people, the ones who are not only breaking laws but are also hurting their own fellow country people," and you say, "We're going to punish them, specifically, that's a step in the right direction."

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Country, Hurt, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• 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

  Mistake, Moving, Russia

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• 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, Done

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

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Furniture, Heavy, Dependable

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

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Fate, Russia, Inevitable

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

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Mother, Father, Construction

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• Putin doesn't conduct elections in the Western sense of elections. This is more accurately probably described as a plebiscite, where people are supposed to express their support for him. The Russian system is not unique in this respect, but it is rather interesting. Here, in the West, the impression that people have is that Putin runs the whole country. This is not so, at all. To a certain extent, you could say that he runs the Kremlin, and this means that it's, in some situations, hard to tell whether it's him running the Kremlin, or the people around him running him.

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  Country, Running, Mean

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Part of the people here are interested in the same thing that Putin is interested in: Putin wants to have America as an enemy. Part of Americans want to have Russia as an enemy. It's advantageous. The other part of the people are just ordinary people. And these people project onto big objects the kind of relations that they have with small objects in their everyday lives.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  People, Everyday, Enemy

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Every politician deep inside is authoritarian. If the person doesn't have ambition, that's not a politician. Society needs to put every ambitious, every effective politician into such a position that it helps - that this person helps improve society. That's why I'm always talking about need to change the system rather than should we go with Navalny or Gudkov or Yavlinsky or Khodorkovsky. We all have our ambitions. We're all ambitious people.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Ambition, People, Ambitious

  Source: www.politico.com

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

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Party, Views, Political

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• The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Mean, Together, Principles

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• I established my bank in 1988.

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• Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country and spend time there. And this is what needs to be done: the Russian people need to be told this, because in today's world, just doing something is not enough. You've got to tell about it, too. If you've done something and haven't told about it, it's as good as if you hadn't done it at all.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Country, People, Done

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If we talk about changes of power in Russia, that has occurred several times in the past century. After Stalin came Khrushchev, who implemented his legacy quite radically, one could say. But there was no blood, nonetheless. After Brezhnev came Gorbachev. I'm not talking about the ones who were in power for only a short period of time. Gorbachev, too, left a very radical legacy.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Past, Legacy, Radical

  Source: www.politico.com

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