Al-Waleed bin Talal Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.
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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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King Abdullah is a reformer.
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But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.
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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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If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.
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Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate.