“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.”

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.

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.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.

Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.