The forecast annual growth rate over the next 10 years of just over 1 percent reflects the chronic underinvestment that plagues the Russian oil sector because of persistent regulatory uncertainties and growing state interference.

It would still be bearable, as long as private ownership dominates and gives a competitive push to the state companies, ... And besides, worldwide, it is mostly state-owned companies that pump oil, be it in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria or Mexico.

Ignorance wavers between extreme audacity and extreme shyness.

At times I think and at times I am.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.