One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East.
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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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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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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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But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
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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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The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
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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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Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.
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I would love to be a corporate leader.
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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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If I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.
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There are pockets of extremism in Israel,
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My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
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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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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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