My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALMy wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALIf I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALYou know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALwhether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALRiyadh – It’s like a city within a city.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALIt is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place
AL-WALEED BIN TALALEthics to me is very important.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALNo 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.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALMy own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALThe lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALWell, 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.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALSo, 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.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALSaudi 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.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALBut more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALThe potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALI definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
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