Top 33 Khodorkovsky's Quotes
#1. I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.
Vladislav Surkov
#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. Fish sighed and reached for the hotel phone. 'How do you say, "Bring me steak and eggs or I'll slit your throat" in Italian?' he asked.
Regina Doman
#5. Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.
Jeff Hawkins
#6. 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
#8. Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
#9. Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.
Fennel Hudson
#12. We stood in the graveyard, among the tombstones, forty-some dead people and me. A couple of my fellow funeral-goers had even been in their own coffins, deep under several feet of French soil.
Amy Plum
#13. 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
#16. Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
Henry Ward Beecher
#17. Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
Susan Sontag
#18. The most important job anyone can ever have is being a mother.
J.A. Konrath
#19. 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
#20. Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.
George R R Martin
#21. My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
#22. Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
#23. She did the "we have mysterious hand gestures that make us giggle" thing.
Elizabeth Scott
#24. 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
#25. The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.
Vladimir Sorokin
#26. 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
#28. 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
#29. His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
William Golding
#30. I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
Russell Wilson
#33. 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
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