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.
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.
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In Riyadh, there’s going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people.
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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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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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whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.
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I would love to be a corporate leader.
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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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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 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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Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population.
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Ethics to me is very important.
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The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years.
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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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But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
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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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