1.
It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
Vagit Alekperov
2.
Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
Vagit Alekperov
3.
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
4.
Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
Vagit Alekperov
5.
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
6.
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
Vagit Alekperov
7.
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
8.
The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.
Vagit Alekperov
