Yelena Baturina

Yelena Baturina (Russian: Елена Николаевна Батурина; born 8 March 1963) is an international billionaire businesswoman and a philanthropist of Russian origin. She is based in Austria.She was married to Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (from 1992 to 2010), until his death in 2019.

Quotes

• When you are in the middle of running a business nobody is interested whether you are a man or a woman. I am, however, convinced that in order to be a success, a woman needs to be head and shoulders above her male partners and competitors.
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• In one way or another I have always been engaged in production. I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.
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• To be frank, sometimes I was quite glad businessmen didn't take me seriously enough. Occasionally I even found it amusing when some businessmen would be more relaxed during negotiations, which I think served as an advantage. In such cases I of course did my best to make the most of the situation.
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