55 Quotes by Anatoly Chubais

I consider these actions to be a huge tactical -- and I stress it -- a tactical mistake. I am sure that in five or three years it will be easily understood. Then the second wave of privatization will come.

colossal mistake, not only in relationship to us but to itself and the world at large.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn’t have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

You’re never able to please everybody, especially when you’re transforming a country like Russia.

The diversification of the people’s demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

You’re not always able to choose.

I’m communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

For the producers, there was no reason to produce. You get money, but you couldn’t use this money. For consumers, you could have money, but you have no way to use it because you go to the shop and see nothing.

I don’t think Russia will follow the United States’s way. I don’t think Russia will follow the French way. I’m sure Russia will find its own way.