Quotes by Al-Waleed Bin Talal - Page 1

You cannot play with fire.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Fire
Play
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King Abdullah is a reformer.
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Reformer
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Ethics to me is very important.
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Ethics
Important
Me Important Very
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I would love to be a corporate leader.
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Corporate
Leader
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We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.
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Hurt
Long Term
Getting
Investor
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The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
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Spectacular
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But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.
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Speed
Advance
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It is very clear that the Republicans do not want to raise taxes.
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Taxes
Republicans
Raise
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I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.
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Arabia
Compare
Country
Other Countries
Saudi Arabia
Countries
Saudi
Telling
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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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Action
Commitment
Inspiration
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My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
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Running
International
Investing
Wheels
Local
Regional
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Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.
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Ceo
Clearly
Functions
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I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Believe
Decline
Exaggerated
Greatly
So-Called
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Kingdom Holding will continue to achieve strong results and to distribute dividends
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Achieve
Kingdoms
Strong
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It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Advantage
Responsibility
World
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I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I'm very happy with what I'm doing right now.
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Capacity
Country
Very Happy
Always Will Doing
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I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Finishing
Maturity
Venture
Venture Capital
Believe I Believe Right
Capital
Phase
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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Journey
Knowledge
Incapable
Internet
Internet Users
Speak
Speak English
Anyone
Backward
English
Nowadays
Regarded
Using
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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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War
Asia
Crisis
Gulf War
Scared
Gulf
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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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Brethren
Hands
Palestinian
Turn The Other Cheek
Turns
World
Cheek
Israelis
Slaughtered
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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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Class
Lessons
Management
Succession
Lesson
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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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America
Management
North America
Stakes
Hotels
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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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Arabia
Being Rich
People
Poverty
Saudi Arabia
People Rich Poverty
Regardless
Saudi
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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.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Arabia
Kingdoms
Saudi Arabia
Terrorist
Towers
Twice
Own Because My Own
Attacks
Center
Saudi
Threats
Tower
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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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Jobs
Cylinders
Firing
Legacy
Established
Clicking
Steve
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The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
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War
Country
Defeat
Palestine
Years
Arab
Arab Countries
Ended
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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.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Government
Balanced
Believe
East
Middle East
Palestinian
Stance
Government Believe I Believe
Adopt
Policies
Re-Examine
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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 Talal / Businessman
Kings
Arabia
People
Saudi Arabia
Succession
Elect
Exactly
Meet
Saudi
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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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Apples
Citibank
News
Smart
Apple
Depend
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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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Arabia
Country
Demand
Growth
Mortgage
Population
Population Growth
Saudi Arabia
Low
Saudi
Supply
Whereby
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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. It's like a city within a city.
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Cities
House
People
Units
Approximately
Project
Inhabitants
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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.
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Population
Rising
Affairs
Arab
Legitimate
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One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
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Company
Dominant
East
Force
Middle East
Movie Industry
Dominant Force
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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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Brands
Fields
Four Seasons
Including
Irreplaceable
Looks
Seasons
George
Plaza
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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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Technology
Arena
Dominating
Innovation
Ipads
Iphone
Apple
Clearly
Ipad
Produced
Role Model
Whereby
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Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Government
Compassion
Extremism
Fighting
Logic
Muslim World
Pockets
Pragmatic
Governments
Muslim
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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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Kings
Arabia
Bondage
People
Royal
Royal Family
Saudi Arabia
Social Contract
Stability
Strong
Contract
Solid
Ruled
Saudi
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Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
New York
Respect
Appreciate
Healing
Behind
Defer
Mosque
Wound
York
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Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.
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Kings
Arabia
Dialogue
East
Get Together
Guidance
Population
Saudi Arabia
Supervision
Together
Views
West
Established
Exchange
North
Saudi
Whereby
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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. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Digital
Doe
Function
Involved
Media
News
Publishing
Real
Clearly
Depend
Global
James
Production
Presence
Rupert Murdoch
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If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
Borders
Clear
Resolution
Accept
Board
Generalize
Impose
Pick
Pick And Choose
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