I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. Mikhail Khodorkovsky More Quotes by Mikhail Khodorkovsky More Quotes From Mikhail Khodorkovsky 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 hard-workmoneyresponsibility Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers. Mikhail Khodorkovsky fightingmanagementtoday Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics. Mikhail Khodorkovsky ukrainefatedream I am working in my office. I've got a boss who tells me what to do. He's got a boss who tells him what to do. And above him is another boss who probably is telling my boss in the same way - or my boss' boss in the same way what to do. In actuality, this is not the way things work. Management science says that that kind of a chain doesn't work more than three levels up. Mikhail Khodorkovsky bossofficemanagement My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. Mikhail Khodorkovsky constructionmotherfather I'm not an ordinary prisoner. Mikhail Khodorkovsky prisonerordinary I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture. Mikhail Khodorkovsky dependablefurnitureheavy Opposition work is not without its dangers. But if you've chosen a job like that for yourself, you then subsequently shouldn't spend your time every second thinking, oh my God, what might happen to me? Oh my God, what might happen to me? Your colleagues include quite a large number of war correspondents. Their job is not the least dangerous in the world, either. Mikhail Khodorkovsky warworldthinking I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home. Mikhail Khodorkovsky homerelaxation 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 principlestogethermean To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me. Mikhail Khodorkovsky crimeguilt And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections. Mikhail Khodorkovsky pretendingelectionimportant Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. Mikhail Khodorkovsky politicalpartyviews 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 governmentdonepresident 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 decisionnamespast Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is at fault. America is at fault. He needs to show those fronts - those directions in which he is defeating America. In Syria, for example, in Syria, he is defeating America; not ISIS, he's defeating America. Mikhail Khodorkovsky obviouseconomyproblem My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory. Mikhail Khodorkovsky factoriesparent 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 moneyessencelife 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 russiamistakemoving Russian people really don't like it when somebody does horrible things in Russia, and then can calmly go travel to another country and spend time there. And this is what needs to be done: the Russian people need to be told this, because in today's world, just doing something is not enough. You've got to tell about it, too. If you've done something and haven't told about it, it's as good as if you hadn't done it at all. Mikhail Khodorkovsky donecountrypeople
