40 Quotes by Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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

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.

Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.

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

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

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

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

I established my bank in 1988.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.