Al-Waleed bin Talal

Businessman

Saudi Arabia

1955 - Present

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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.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
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
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
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.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
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
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
I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
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
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
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.
Al-Waleed bin Talal