I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.
If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.
We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.
The real traveller is the one who continues his journey even when the road ends!
The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
The marathon is like a bullfight.
There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.