For some sport is a hobby but for me it is a way to survive. It makes me calm, balanced and well-rested. Not tired but vice versa. I think sport balances off my work load.

Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.

Money is not the thing that drives me. I like to develop assets to create value. No one cares how rich you are or what your ranking is in Forbes magazine.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

I think women make the same mistake with me all the time. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

I never count my money. I think that's your job.

Nobody was interested in me before I bought the Nets.

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.

Frankly speaking, I like women. In my heart, I am still teenager. And I am very open and I don't want to hide this.

I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

By not knowing what we needed to know and knowing what we did not need to know

Religion is a distraction from true education.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.