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2:00 a.m. in the Arabian desert, the world’s fifth richest man sits alone. A rare moment of tranquility. Who is this man? What is he thinking? Why is he here?
He is His Royal Highness Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, nephew of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, grandson of the country’s founder, grandson also of the founder of modern day Lebanon. Just 44 years old, his net worth tops $20 billion.
Mostly he lives here in a 460,000 square-foot palace he calls home. Quaint, it isn’t？ It’s 317 rooms, include 18 sitting rooms, 15 dinning rooms, 10 bedrooms, 16 pantries, and one dozen elevators. The garage is big, too. It has to be to accommodate the Prince’s hundreds of cars. And this is the Prince’s kitchen – a 30,000 – square – foot facility with enough staff and equipment to feed more than a 1,000 people on any given day. And that’s on top of 20 smaller kitchens scattered throughout the palace. The Prince’s bedroom is large, but his closet is larger. Among other things, it holds his 3,000 pairs of shoes, and hundreds of pairs of sunglasses.
Journalist: Do you think you live lavishly?
Prince: No I don’t think… I live happily. Now, maybe to some people, it’s lavish, I would acknowledge that, but to me, I live happily.
This is the other Prince Alwaleed, a top minded negotiator and international investing sensation whose personal inverstment vehicle, Kingdom Holding Company, owns stakes in a litany of the world’s best known brands. Along side Rupert Murdock and Ted Turner, he’s one of the world’s biggest media tycoons, with shares in A.O.L., Newscorp and Disney, alongside the Marriotts and the Hiltons, a leading hotelier with big chunks of The Four Season, Movenpick, and Fairmont chains as well as New York’s Plaza Hotel and Paris’s George Saint. A giant in banking, too, whose stake in Citygroup alone totals a cool $10 billion.
But for all his wealth, this Saudi Royal still seeks something money can’t buy.
Prince: I believe that we have a mission, you know, to tell the western world held by America for sure, is that the Arabs are good businessmen, good honorable people. And when they communicate and when they do this and business with the biggest companies in America, they are welcome, and they do it very honorably. And if I can contribute in having the image being better and enhanced, of course being more positive in America, I would be more than happy to do it.
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| contribute | [kən'tribju:t] |
想一想再看 |
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| sensation | [sen'seiʃən] |
想一想再看 n. 感覺，感知力，激動，轟動 |
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| saint | [seint] |
想一想再看 n. 圣人，圣徒 |
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| bin | [bin] |
想一想再看 n. 箱柜，[計] DOS文件名， 二進制目標文件 |
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| quaint | [kweint] |
想一想再看 adj. 古雅的，離奇有趣的，奇怪的 |
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| honorable | ['ɔnərəbl] |
想一想再看 adj. 光榮的，可敬的，尊敬的 |
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| tranquility | [træŋ'kwiliti] |
想一想再看 n. 寧靜，平靜，穩定 |
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| stake | [steik] |
想一想再看 n. 樁，賭注，利害關系 |
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| lavish | ['læviʃ] |
想一想再看 adj. 大方的，豐富的，浪費的 vt. 浪費，慷慨給予 |
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| rare | [rɛə] |
想一想再看 adj. 稀罕的，稀薄的，罕見的，珍貴的 |
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