Roustam Tariko Quotes

Roustam Tariko

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 17, 1962

My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them.

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I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.

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I had dreams about working for a big foreign company.

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Russians really needed a product that would be not as strong as vodka and not as feminine as cheap sparkling wine, so Martini was a good solution.

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Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

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When you have premium brands, you have to have the right balance of communicating all of your values.

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You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

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I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

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I would prefer myself to own all of my brand, where everything I am responsible for myself.

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