Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

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.

I established my bank in 1988.

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.

By equating Putin and Russia, you are creating a situation that's the opposite of what you would like to have happen.

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

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

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.