Top 79 Talal Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. You will not be able to enjoy a good night's sleep unless you've worked hard during the day
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#5. Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#6. I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#7. He walked out without his money.
The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Clearly, as a CEO, you have other functions that are managed by other people.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#11. It seems to me perfectly possible to act humanely towards other beings, whether humans or animals or plants. One simply has to learn how to behave. To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity."
Talal Asad
#12. The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#13. Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#14. 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
#15. The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.
Talal Asad
#16. 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
#17. Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.
Talal Asad
#18. Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.
Talal Asad
#20. Moving to the forefront of advanced nations is not a choice but a national duty. This requires, among other things, erecting the best industrial property protection systems despite all challenges, particularly in the transition phase that we must endure.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#21. 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
#22. I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#23. 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
#24. My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#29. Modern sovereignty, whether expressed through killing in battle or the torture of suspects, brings together the desire to build up and the desire to destroy, to let Aid Agencies offer charity (in its original meaning of "love") while the military offers death. The two are intrinsically connected.
Talal Asad
#30. Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.
Talal Asad
#31. 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
#34. Intellectual capital is the main determining factor and the base for economic and social development to any country.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#35. It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.
Prince Hassan Bin Talal
#36. 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
#37. Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism.
We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#38. Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not?
Talal Asad
#39. The sun-belt and the technology belt can become very powerful when they begin to understand themselves as a community: a community of energy, water and climate security; a community for their common future.
Prince Hassan Bin Talal
#40. Kingdom Holding will continue to achieve strong results and to distribute dividends
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#41. 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
#42. An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#43. I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.
Talal Asad
#44. War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.
Prince Hassan Bin Talal
#45. 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
#46. To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.
Prince Hassan Bin Talal
#47. 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
#50. If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#51. Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#52. 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
#53. We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#54. The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#55. 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
#57. It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#58. 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
#62. There wasn't a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying our
country?
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#63. I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.
Talal Asad
#64. You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane life. Language permeates all of life, of course, and one's mind is essential to it, but that does not mean intellectuality should transcend all of life.
Talal Asad
#67. 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
#69. We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that we can react quickly to the needs of our clients and our market place.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#70. Governments should be role models of leadership and improve the utilization of ICT in all the governmental departments in order to improve the efficiency of governmental services and motivate ICT industries.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#71. Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#73. I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way.
We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing.
Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#74. Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#75. 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
#76. I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.
Talal Asad
#77. 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
#79. The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
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