Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.