Vladimir Putin

“When he came to power, the oil price was 20 dollars a barrel. And then by the end of the decade, oil price was a hundred dollars a barrel.”

“He knows English very well, but he'll never speak in English ever. He'll only speak in Russian in, in like public.”

“And then I learned that this advice giving business It's just counterproductive, and doing, giving frank exchange, and all that, just doesn't work. And how, it also taught me about how leaders transform over time. That when he first came to power, he seemed re…”

“One of the very few governments in the world which actually introduced a flat tax was Russia. Right. Right. They said flat tax. I think it was 13% or something. Said flat tax.”