Al-Waleed bin Talal

“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.”

“If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.”

“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.”

“Ethics to me is very important.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.”

“It is very clear that the Republicans do not want to raise taxes.”

“I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.”

“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.”

“My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.”

“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.”

“But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I'm very happy with what I'm doing right now.”