When Citibank was on its knees and everyone was running for the exits, I walked in with $590 million. The best time to invest is when everyone else is too scared to.
Oil will run out. The question is not if, but when. Saudi Arabia needs investments that will outlast petroleum — and that's what Kingdom Holding is building.
I don't invest in ideas. I invest in brands that have survived at least one crisis. If a company can survive near-death, it can survive anything. That's when I buy.
Being a prince opens doors. But keeping them open requires performance. Markets don't care about your title — they care about your returns.
Forbes said I was worth $20 billion. I said I was worth $30 billion. We argued about it for a decade. The truth is, neither of us really knew — and that's the nature of private wealth.