Vagit Alekperov quotes:
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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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.
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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.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
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Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.