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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.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

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Al-Waleed bin Talal
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 7
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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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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
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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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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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The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.
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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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You cannot play with fire.
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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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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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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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I would love to be a corporate leader.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Ethics to me is very important.
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It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place
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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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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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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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