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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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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch. "

Vladimir Potanin

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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. "

Vladimir Potanin

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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. "

Vladimir Potanin

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" The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity. "

" 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. "

" There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life. "

" 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. "