Roman Abramovich

I’m realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I’m crazy.

People who know me said I will win one or two Premierships and will not be interested after that. The reality is that we’ve won two Premierships but I’m more excited about this particular season than last year or the year before. I am a fan of special nature. I’m getting excited before every single game. The trophy at the end is less important than the process itself.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard working and pragmatic.

I’m getting excited before every single game. The trophy at the end is less important than the process itself.

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

I never made any public statements, at least I tried never to make any public statements. I know I don’t do it well, I become very nervous, I forget what it is that I mean to say, I can’t really convey my logic and my thought to the journalists, so I decided this is not my thing, I really shouldn’t be doing it.

Employers only handle the money – it is the customer who pays the wages.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.

I quickly figured out [that] the one ability I’d better have is to create relationships.

Asking me to come work here is the dumbest idea you ever had. It has been a waste of a year.

There is a time and place for all things to be successful. There is fate and destiny and opportunity, and you need all three things in line at the same time.

Although Mr. Edison was called ‘The Wizard’ of the electrical world and everyone thought that electricity was the coming thing, he actually encouraged me to go with my second car.

It’s all too easy to miss out on the important moments in life because you’re too busy staring at your phone.

Do not spend too much time planning or trying to anticipate and solve problems before they happen. That is just another kind of excuse for procrastination. Until you start, you won’t know where the problems will occur. You won’t have the experience to solve them. Instead, get into action, and solve the problems as they arise.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules, you learn by doing and by falling over.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.