Quotes by Vladimir Potanin - Page 1

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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Pace
Supervise
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The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.
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Assets
Depends
Maturity
Strategy
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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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Conditions
Ministry
Persons
Qualified
Soviet
Symbol
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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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Beautiful Things
Luxury
Poor
Sake
Showing
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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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Illegal
Unfair
Inevitably
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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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Faces
Insult
Luxury
Modest
Wealth
Demonstrate
Rub
Showing
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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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Reasonably
So Much Time
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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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Alone
Access
Company
Connections
Expertise
Handle
Management
Partners
Resources
Above
Big Company
Bring
Project
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After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.
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Banking
Etc
Normal Life
Life Time Business
Scale
Mr
Gaining
Partner
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Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.
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Activity
Code
Entrepreneurial
Soviet
Soviet Union
Understood
Article
Existed
Frankly
Punished
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Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.
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Russia
Time Work Business
Acquiring
Difficulties
Work Time Business
First Of All
Implemented
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