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.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALThe issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years.
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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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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.
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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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If I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.
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It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place
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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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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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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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I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
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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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It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
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I would love to be a corporate leader.
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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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My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
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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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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
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Ethics to me is very important.
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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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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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Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical.
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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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Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.
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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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One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East.
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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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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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