Al-Waleed bin Talal famous quotes

03-28-2025

I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Country #Arabia #Saudi Arabia
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Speak #Internet
If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Inspiration
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

#Believe #Government #Causes
Ethics to me is very important.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Important #Ethics
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Smart #Apples #News
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Middle East #Force #Company
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 Talal

#Four Seasons #Looks #Fields
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Country #War #Years
You cannot play with fire.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Fire #Play
I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I'm very happy with what I'm doing right now.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Country #Capacity #Very Happy
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

#Real #Media #Digital
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Jobs #Legacy #Cylinders
I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Believe #Decline
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Technology #Ipads #Apples
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

#Fighting #Compassion #Government
Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Hands #World #Turn The Other Cheek
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#America #Management #Stakes
I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#War #Asia #Scared
My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Running #Investing #Wheels
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Class #Lessons #Management
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#People #Arabia #Poverty
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Kings #Views #Together
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Cities #People #House
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

#Arabia #Towers #Kingdoms
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Strong #Kings #People
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.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Country #Growth #Arabia
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

#Kings #People #Arabia
The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Spectacular

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