We buy the most expensive grain available growing on the best part of Russian land called black soil. We also play close attention to the purity of the water - we get it from Lake Ladoga. We store it ourselves to specific conditions. We carefully manage distillation at my distillery in Moscow.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

Money is always an indicator of a job well done.

A lot of people offered me to go public, but I have always rejected it.

The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.