“The Poles, let us learn to live without complexes” – at the conference “Puls Biznesu” (2015).
Kulczyk recalled how President Lech Walesa was accompanied during his visit to Moscow. He watched as Walesa negotiated with Russian President Boris Yeltsin removal of Russian troops from Polish. He began to fear that at werwie Walesa and verifying that table in the Kremlin is as strong as it looks, return to the country “in wooden jesionkach” as the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Boleslaw Bierut (Bierut died in Moscow in 1956 in mysterious circumstances ). But when Walesa rose from the table, he said: “agree”. And so it happened.
businessman also mentioned his visit to the White House in Washington, where he was also adviser to US President Barack Obama’s. Security, gen. James L. Jones, and so by Kulczyk “third person after the head of state”. Businesses were able to persuade the American general to be his advisor.
Kulczyk believed that this was due to his appetite to earn the impossible. He argued that the barriers are there to be overcome. He urged for optimism that the Poles missing.
“Punishing people simply for the fact that earlier get up, more to learn, more risk and therefore earn more, it is immoral and short-sighted “- in an interview for” Wprost “(2012).
Kulczyk sharply criticized the fiscal policies directed against the richest. He admitted that his personal taxes paid in Switzerland, because he lived there permanently. His fortune “Forbes” valued at 15.1 billion zł.
Companies Kulczyk pay taxes in Poland but only if they actually work on the Vistula. A very large part of its businesses operate while abroad. Kulczyk Investments, the group which links the main interests of Kulczyk, installed in Luxembourg. Despite this, registered in Warsaw, Polish Kulczyk Holding, including the company’s businesses went to the first place in the rankings of the largest private taxpayers in Poland.
Criticism pay part of the taxes abroad considered a backwater. In last year’s interview with “Forbes” he found it difficult to imagine that the president of Nigeria said that some of the projects implemented at the truth in his country, but will pay taxes in Poland. He assured that he is a patriot and that the Poles accost him on the street, thanking him for the construction of the A2 motorway, we travel to Europe.
“If we drill a hole, the risk is huge. But if we are to them a hundred, just ten where something was found. Then the risk drops to practically zero “- in an interview for” Gazeta Wyborcza “(2013).
Kulczyk called the first Polish sheik and oil tycoon. Oil and gas sought on several continents. Kulczyk Investments holds shares in Neconde Energy procuring “black gold” in the Niger Delta, Serinus Energy oil and gas mining in Ukraine and Tunisia, San Leon Energy looking for oil and gas Poland and Loon Energy Corporation, which is looking for hydrocarbons in Colombia and Peru . Kulczyk recently got rid of the shares in Ophir Energy. The company has mining concessions in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Seychelles, Tanzania, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand.
Kulczyk not only dywersyfikował its oil and gas businesses. Dywersyfikował all their business. He invested in a gold mine in Namibia, Autostrada Wielkopolska, as well as the company producing beer, SABMiller, owner of, among others, Polish Kompania Piwowarska.
“Since my first days in business I knew that I am not fit president in charge of a particular company. I know nothing about it and I can not meet in this role “- in an interview with” Forbes “(2014).
Kulczyk admitted that he often visited the companies he owned. He could not boast of even traveling the entire episode of “his” highway. He said, however, that he could set courses of action, strategy, organize the financing, to verify the legal structure of the transaction and choose the best people. In this he felt strong.
From the beginning focused on building the group. First it was operating mainly in Poland, the group Kulczyk Holding and is already underway in the international arena Kulczyk Investments group.
” [There is no] no sensation “- in an interview with” Forbes “(2014).
Kulczyk refuted allegations that he made in the interests of the state. He believed that participated de facto in only two privatizations.
The first is Breweries Wielkopolski “Lech”, which Kulczyk portfolio went to early 90s businessman believed that he took the risk of restructuring crumbling to rubble company, and then sought a partner with the know-how and capital for further development. He said that the only sensation in this case can be considered is how quickly he was able to transform “a museum of beer in one of the most modern breweries in the world, the leader of the Polish market.”
As regards the second privatization, or the purchase together with France Télécom shares of Polish Telecom at the beginning of the last decade, he took the view that he has paid the Treasury a record much. This was to save the budget before the collapse.
“Investing in the fireplace burning banknotes with a face value of 500 euros is an expensive hobby “- in an interview for” Wprost “(2012).
Businessman believed that Greece should be allowed to go bankrupt. He claimed that the assistance from the value of 240 billion euros and remission of part of the debt it did not work, “did not create any added value.” He took the view that if a bank wants to continue to help Greece should pay for it myself, and not European taxpayers’ money.
“Life is not just business” – in an interview with TVN24.
Kulczyk, who was himself a philanthropist, not once reminded that the most important are the relationships between the people, the principles of fair play and respect for opponents. An important lesson to make up for the Polish business.
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