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.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

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

There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.

Visas represent one bureaucratic obstacle, so to say and, if removed, might increase the inflow of Russian money into the Czech economy. And not only Russian money, but Russian tourists, Russian entrepreneurs and so on.

I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.