Quotes By Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
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
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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
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
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
Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky