“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.”

You cannot play with fire.

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.

Riyadh – It’s like a city within a city.

Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global – that has a global presence that’s involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera.

Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don’t have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.