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If you like foie gras, that doesn't mean you no longer need a regular steak.
Many of our traditional partners are positioning themselves as strong regional players... Shell is a global player. And as the global gas markets develop... we will be creating a global strategic partnership.
We met our partners in Europe, and they are signaling to us that supplies from traditional European gas production sources is falling, and falling substantially. Without new volumes of Russian gas, they simply cannot cope.
Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.
In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.
It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.
My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.
People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.
Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.
Russia is not a homogenous country; it's a very fragmented country.
The future is in green energy; it's in making steel for energy-efficient cars.
The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.
The U.S. has done a great job improving productivity. We're making a lot more steel in Dearborn with fewer people. The unions have accepted much better work rules.
We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.
Well... I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.
What you need to keep most in the U.S. is the entrepreneurial spirit.
When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus, or preserved jobs in Pennsylvania, everyone was happy.
An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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