“Shell companies can be owned by other shell companies; opaque offshore...” — Anne Applebaum Quote

“Shell companies can be owned by other shell companies; opaque offshore vehicles are carefully designed so that regulators can't identify who is using them; with the right accountants, they can be set up quickly and easily.”

“Inside the noisy and chaotic modern information sphere, the message doesn't matter nearly as much as the messenger.”

“Politics in Slovakia had long been a battle between egotistical men. Caputova sought to be the anti-ego alternative.”

“The big corporations have a team of lawyers and accountants to help them. It's the small businesses, the mom and pop shops, that get lost in the layers of red tape.”

“When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music... Now, record companies are run by lawyers and accountants.”