Vladimir Potanin Quotes
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Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.
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It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.
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It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.
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To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.
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For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.
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For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.
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When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.
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There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.
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I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.
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The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.