Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Vagit Alekperov

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian businessman Vagit Alekperov.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Vagit Alekperov

Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov is a Russian–Azerbaijani businessman who served as president of the oil company Lukoil from 1993 until 2022.

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