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Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.