Vladimir Potanin Quotes

#1. It is better to leave a child well instructed than to hand over the whole world in the hands of a fool

Michael Quansah

#2. Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.

Vladimir Potanin

#3. It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.

Vladimir Potanin

#4. To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.

Vladimir Potanin

#5. If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Jackson Katz

#6. After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

Vladimir Potanin

#7. When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.

Vladimir Potanin

#8. His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life

John Green

#9. The Americans, he laughed drunkenly. They build more cars than anybody in the world, and take them out and dump them in terrible traffic jams. The only thing crazier than the Americans were the Russians, who never had traffic jams because they didn't have cars.

Stephen Hunter

#10. Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

Roger McGough

#11. For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

Vladimir Potanin

#12. The seeds of freedom ... have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews of God's clemency, till the reapers abolitionists shall shout the harvest home.

Henry McNeal Turner

#13. It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

Vladimir Potanin

#14. There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.

Vladimir Potanin

#15. For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

Vladimir Potanin

#16. The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.

Vladimir Potanin

#17. The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems like the Abrams tank, it will take time and money to get this capability back.

Sander Levin

#18. Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.

Vladimir Potanin

#19. I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

Vladimir Potanin