Businessman Quotes

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

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

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

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

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

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

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

I established my bank in 1988.

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.

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

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

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.

These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.

Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.

The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family.

Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.

Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.

Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.