Alekperov Quotes & Sayings

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions. — Vagit Alekperov

The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing. — Vagit Alekperov

In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it. — Vagit Alekperov

I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia. — Vagit Alekperov

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background. — Robert Breault

The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks. — Murray Rothbard

I am a normal guy. — Vagit Alekperov

Gas consumption is growing everywhere. — Vagit Alekperov

You won't be able to do this ten years from now - just leave everything behind and go. — Rachel Kapelke-Dale

America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies ... Liberty will come to those who love it. — George W. Bush

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil. — Vagit Alekperov

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics. — Vagit Alekperov

I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty. — Vagit Alekperov

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits. — T. Boone Pickens

To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave. — Samuel Stennett