One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East.
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You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
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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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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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I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
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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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The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years.
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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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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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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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You cannot play with fire.
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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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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
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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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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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