Khodorkovsky Mikhail Quotes

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

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#2. Westcliff looks for any excuse to demonstrate his superiority, doesn't he?" "Was that what he was doing? It looked rather like he was trying to find an excuse to put his arms around you.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. 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

#4. I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp.

Garry Kasparov

#5. I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#7. A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Taylor Swift

#8. Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

James Altucher

#9. This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#10. The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service.

Ian Fleming

#11. The things that happen are an earthquake, another bomb in Iraq, some big jolt on Wall Street in oil prices, and then you have some new study on drought patterns from climate change. Or another little incremental improvement in photovoltaics. Where do those fit in to the daily stream? They don't.

Andrew Revkin

#12. 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

#13. To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#14. I established my bank in 1988.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#15. It always amazed her how easily she could forget what she had actually eaten, and yet was never able to forget for a second she was overweight.

Pat Dennis

#16. Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

Axel Alonso

#17. Jesus, Jess, it would be nice if you stayed out of life-and-death scenarios for five minutes.

Amanda Carlson

#18. Gamers can feel when developers are passionate about their games. They can smell it like a dog smells fear. Don't be afraid to hold onto your unique vision: just be aware that it may not turn out exactly how you envisioned.

Scott Rogers

#19. As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#20. 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

#21. I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#23. Datta, dayadhvam, damyata
(Give, sympathize, control)

T. S. Eliot

#24. 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

#25. If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

Steven Pinker

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

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#27. In the kitchen, Chris pours her a glass of sun tea. Bitter. She hates the way they make tea up here. Tea should be sweet, gritty with sugar. Up here it's like the Yankees want their tea to taste like wash water.

Chuck Wendig

#28. The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

Mark Twain

#29. Testosterone overload?" Merinus gave an unladylike grunt. "More like asshole overload if you ask me.

Lora Leigh

#30. 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

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

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#32. Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

Virginia Woolf

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

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#34. 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

#35. My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky