Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Mikhail Khodorkovsky:

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.
~Mikhail Khodorkovsky


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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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#ce9f121d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#f3d107e1

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#319b8c3b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#9320fb35

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#20b50990

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.
~Mikhail Khodorkovsky


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#860bff93

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.
~Mikhail Khodorkovsky


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#8e7ccd11

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#a93a9eb4

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#6597be7e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#c0bc9518

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
~Mikhail Khodorkovsky


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#abc66dc9

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#41b8e1c2

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
~Mikhail Khodorkovsky


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#bcbb36d8

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#bac2bbf9

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.
~Mikhail Khodorkovsky


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#d2a0c047

I established my bank in 1988.
~Mikhail Khodorkovsky


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/mikhail-khodorkovsky-quotes/#31d478cd

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