The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

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.

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.

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.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

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.

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

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

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

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.

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

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

Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

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