Solange Knowles Quotes

I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

There is so much to discover in Dubai.

I really enjoyed performing there. Dubai is a very rocking place.

I like Dubai because of the sheer scale on which the city is built. It is completely futuristic but with a warm, old-world ethos.

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.

The price of oil and the price of freedom always move in opposite directions in oil rich ‘petrolist’ states. The higher the average global crude oil prices rises, the more free speech, free press, free and fair elections, an independent judiciary, the rule of law, and independent political parties are eroded.

The price of oil and the pace of freedom always move in opposite directions. It’s the First Law of Petropolitics.

Even though the Arab countries have both strategic and invaluable subterranean riches, most of them are poor.

The marketing needs a better campaign based on the visitor's appetite and segment. If there are a lot of Middle East tourists traveling to Puncak to seek janda, I think that it's OK. The tourists would bring numerous benefits to the women and their offspring, as well as the country's entertainment community. If the janda get modest homes even if the tourists later leave them, then it's OK. The children resulting from these relationships will have good genes.

The reason why the citizens of New York will pay so large a part of the tax is New York City is the chief financial and commercial centre of a great country with vast resources and industrial activity. For many years Americans engaged in developing the wealth of all parts of the country have been going to New York to secure capital and market their securities and to buy their supplies. Thousands of men who have amassed fortunes in all sorts of enterprises in other states have gone to New York to live because they like the life of the city or because their distant enterprises require representation at the financial centre. The incomes of New York are in a great measure derived from the country at large. A continual stream of wealth sets toward the great city from the mines and manufactories and railroads outside of New York

People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.

I always wanted to at least visit Dubai - it was a city that I loved to watch on the Discovery Channel. It had the world's biggest everything and clearly had a vision to stand out.

I've been to Dubai many times for holidays.

My personal goal is to be a billionaire.

I am very happy to be playing in the United Arab Emirates.

I have had a positive experience in Qatar. It has not been too challenging, and it has given my ankles a rest!

If you make a sale, you can earn a commission. If you make a friend, you can earn a fortune!

Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.

During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.