It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.

There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.

When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.