“Although we live in a civilised society, the business world remains a jungle.”

“Although failure is a great teacher, we cannot afford the time to learn from our failures. Human societies cannot be subjected to such a process.”

“Failure is not falling to the ground; it is remaining there once you have fallen and the greatest failure is when you decide not to stand up again.”

“We can speak of war as vehemently as some others do, but because we believe otherwise as Muslims, we prefer to speak of peace.”

“Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism.”

“Good leadership puts the interests of the community as a whole before those of any specific group. Credibility of leadership can only be established through action and not words.”

“Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.”