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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.
We’re getting hurt, but I’m a long-term investor.
The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
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.
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.
If I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.
Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
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.
You cannot play with fire.
I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I’m very happy with what I’m doing right now.
Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
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.
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.
I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.
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.
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.
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.
King Abdullah is a reformer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m not panicking, and I’m not scared, I’ve been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
It is very clear that the Republicans do not want to raise taxes.
My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
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.
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.
