“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.”

It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My first win feels better than a draw!

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

I’d like my first Ryder Cup appearance to be in the United States.

Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith’s ‘What It Was, Was Football.’ I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn’t know what any of it meant.

The first project, I made 16 songs and put 12 of them on the mixtape.