One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALYou 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.
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I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I’m very happy with what I’m doing right now.
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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.
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The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
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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.
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My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
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I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.
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Riyadh – It’s like a city within a city.
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In Riyadh, there’s going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people.
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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.
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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.
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I would love to be a corporate leader.
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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.
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The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years.
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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.
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It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place
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