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.
AL-WALEED BIN TALALMost governments are pragmatic, most people are logical.
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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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You cannot play with fire.
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Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical.
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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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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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The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years.
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It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
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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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If I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.
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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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Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.
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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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My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
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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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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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