Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALRiyadh – It’s like a city within a city.
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You cannot play with fire.
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There are pockets of extremism in Israel,
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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.
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The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
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whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.
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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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If I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.
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I would love to be a corporate leader.
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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’m not panicking, and I’m not scared, I’ve been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
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I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
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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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My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.
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One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East.
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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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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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In the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.
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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.
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But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
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Kingdom Holding will continue to achieve strong results and to distribute dividends
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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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I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
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Ethics to me is very important.
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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.
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The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years.
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