“You cannot play with fire.”

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people – 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

So, if you look at what’s common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it’s Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Ethics to me is very important.

I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I’m very happy with what I’m doing right now.

The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.

Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population.

The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that’s clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

I’m not panicking, and I’m not scared, I’ve been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

If I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

Kingdom Holding will continue to achieve strong results and to distribute dividends

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

In the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

I’m telling you, you can’t compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity.

Chemistry cannot be purchased.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

You cannot petition the lord with prayer!

Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.

You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.