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.
From Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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.
Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.
A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.
I established my bank in 1988.
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.
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