Al Waleed Bin Talal Quotes

• 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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• 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. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

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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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• 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 wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.

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• King Abdullah is a reformer.

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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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• 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.

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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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• I’m telling you, you can’t compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

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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 Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.

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• Ethics to me is very important.

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• Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.

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• But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.

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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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Al Waleed Bin Talal (37)

Birth:	7th March, 1955
Nationality:	Arabian
Profession:	Chief Executive Officer, Founder

About

Al Waleed Bin Talal is a Saudi Arabian business tycoon and investor. He is a member of the Saudi royal family. He is the founder, CEO and 95%-owner of Kingdom Holding Company. As of March 2012, his personal wealth is estimated to be US $18 billion. Arabian Business ranks him as the most influential Arab in the world. Al Waleed bin Talal was born on 7 March 1955. His parents are Prince Talal and Mona Al Solh, daughter of Riad Al Solh, Lebanon's first Prime Minister after its independence. Al Waleed is Prince Talal's second son. Therefore, Al Waleed is the grandson of Saudi Arabia's founder Ibn Saud. Al Waleed received a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration from Menlo College in California in 1979. He then received a Master's of Social Science with honors from Syracuse University in 1985.

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