Al-Waleed bin Talal Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“King Abdullah is a reformer.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.”

“I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.”

“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 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.”