Top 40 Tariko Quotes
#1. I do not separate my job and my personal life; therefore, I never work and never rest.
Roustam Tariko
#2. Considering that Americans are now moving away from whiskey, moving away from brown spirits in general, I believe that they will all join Russians who drink vodka straight. They will sip it like cognac.
Roustam Tariko
#3. I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.
Roustam Tariko
#4. Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic policy because that's a value judgment ... I've had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.
Franco Modigliani
#5. My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.
Nile Rodgers
#6. The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
Dick Cavett
#7. The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.
Ken Kesey
#8. A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make the book happy. I decided they made it. They made it to the past. I decided the past was our world, and the future was their world. It was parallel worlds.
Lois Lowry
#9. You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.
Roustam Tariko
#10. There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.
Roustam Tariko
#11. I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and my activity changes.
Roustam Tariko
#12. What's my expectation in the U.S.? I would like to replace Grey Goose.
Roustam Tariko
#13. If you do things you like to do, then your life will be easy.
Roustam Tariko
#14. I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
Will Rogers
#15. Russians really needed a product that would be not as strong as vodka and not as feminine as cheap sparkling wine, so Martini was a good solution.
Roustam Tariko
#16. A lot of people offered me to go public, but I have always rejected it.
Roustam Tariko
#17. The only warning I'd give is - make sure you are strong enough and committed enough in your business pursuits. It is commitment and belief, not just the bottom line, that should drive you.
Roustam Tariko
#18. I had English grammar book and started to teach myself. I read 'Catcher in Rye,' in Russian. I was amazed at freedom in 'Catcher in Rye!' Freedom to have those perceptions of life!
Roustam Tariko
#20. From the country with limited hope to grow your own business and express your own personality, Russia has become the land of significant opportunity.
Roustam Tariko
#21. Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.
Roustam Tariko
#22. I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother's Communist propaganda.
Roustam Tariko
#23. She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.
Margaret Atwood
#25. I always wanted to work on the consumer market; I always wanted to work with people.
Roustam Tariko
#26. I had dreams about working for a big foreign company.
Roustam Tariko
#27. I am president of Russian Standard Company, biggest luxury vodka in Russia. My bank, Russian Standard Bank, issues biggest number of credit cards in Russia. I want for Russian people to have their own best vodka, their own best bank, their own best credit card.
Roustam Tariko
#28. I would prefer myself to own all of my brand, where everything I am responsible for myself.
Roustam Tariko
#29. My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them.
Roustam Tariko
#30. I believe there is not any big difference between any consumer business, whether it's a bank or insurance or vodka or chocolate, whatever it is.
Roustam Tariko
#31. The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
William Osler
#32. We buy the most expensive grain available growing on the best part of Russian land called black soil. We also play close attention to the purity of the water - we get it from Lake Ladoga. We store it ourselves to specific conditions. We carefully manage distillation at my distillery in Moscow.
Roustam Tariko
#33. Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.
William A. Dembski
#34. I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.
Roustam Tariko
#35. An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
#36. I don't believe in public companies ... I would prefer to risk my own money, make any necessary changes fast and grow as quickly as possible.
Roustam Tariko
#37. I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
Valentino Garavani
#38. When you have premium brands, you have to have the right balance of communicating all of your values.
Roustam Tariko
#39. Wherever I am, I start my day, it's the same. I'm not an early bird. I'm not waking up at five o'clock, six o'clock; it's usually seven-thirty, eight o'clock, and I will then read the newspapers, emails from around the world and make phone calls.
Roustam Tariko
#40. I launched Imperia at the Statue of Liberty because I wanted to use something symbolic. I like American society because it always wants to do something new and better.
Roustam Tariko
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