Top 30 Quotes by Anatoly Chubais

There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.

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.

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable.

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.