This is the cover for the summer issue of a magazine called “PRESTIGE New York.” It gets better.
On the matter of make making money money, take taking money money:
“I’m not down at all,” says Prince Alwaleed, who turned 55 in March. “You should know that I take each loss seriously, each million, each 100 million, each billion. Of course it affects me. It impacts me. I take it personally. I just make sure it never happens again.” As to his recent declines, he retorts that he has suffered, in percentage terms, similar setbacks before. His shares in Citi (as it’s now known) were valued this February at $623 million. That’s more than a 90 percent dive from the peak price.
Still, the prince is worth more than $17 billion. “On my scale, you don’t make mistakes, you make blunders,” he says, laughing. Then, dead-serious, he adds, “I’ve made my fortune before. I know I can do it again.”
And on the matter of not being a fattie (which SOMEONE will probably forward to Vikram Pandit):
HRH graduated magna cum laude from Menlo College, in California, in 1979, with a degree in business adminitration. In 1985 he earned an M.A. with honors in Social Science from Syracuse University. During that time, he recalls, he put on a lot of weight. He’s been extremely health-conscious ever since and is now a strict vegetarian who avoids fatty foods, exercises every day and devotes himself to keeping fit. He is a keen cyclist who makes habit of riding for at least one hour a day, although he concedes to keeping a phone handy for deal making. He also puts swimming, walking and skiing on his agenda whenever possible. An acknowledged workaholic and accomplished horseman, he sleeps only five hours a night.
I like how Prestige is trying to appeal to everyone:
“Bob and Suzanne Wright”: Nice White Folks!
“Grace Hightower”: Some Black Folks!
“Jared Isaacman”: And a Jew, too!
And no one could Photoshop that zit next to his mouth?
I fuckin love this guy.
Prestige = Taking one of the ugliest people I have ever seen and plopping them on top of a horse?
huh
“he says, laughing. Then, dead-serious,”
awesome
Black shirt for black horse, white shirt for white horse. What to do about wardrobe for that Appaloosa….
“You should know that I take each loss seriously, each million, each 100 million, each billion.”
ARE YOU LISTENING VIKRAM PANDIT?
he has ridiculously good hair.
Yes, “he” made his fortune….keep telling yourself that buddy.
spending any amount of time at all in Syracuse results in weight gain. Chicken wings are considered health food there. Genny screamers are like freaking smoothies….
What a perfect specimen of what a man should look like.
P.A.
Menlo College?
Good God, he looks so majestic on that horse.
He looks like the lovechild of Roger Federer and Bono
I love the idea of him at a ‘Cuse game.
“On my scale, you don’t make mistakes, you make blunders,” he says, laughing (nice, deep tummy laugh). Then, dead-serious, he adds, “No, but for real — I’ll fucking douse that punjab fuck with oil and light him on fire if he fucks me again.” He then kicked the shit out of his horse, and rode into the sunset, smoking a Kool 100.
@16 bravo
Prestige Worldwide….Investors? YOU!
@16: FTW
Wearing a horse is like wearing a uniform, it makes everyone look good. And look, he even changes his clothese to blend in with the horse!
In the last picture its really hard to tell where the horse ends and he begins.
20- not true at all. I have pics of myself on a horse and I look like a freaking midget at 5’9″
forgive my ignorance but what is ftw?
Again forgive my ignorance but I thought only japs from nj went to Syracuse…
It has horoscopes and chinese zodiacs! I bet they forecast much classier things happening than in my regular newspaper.
Bess – could you research the prestigious things that the magazine anticipates for a Scorpio born in the year of the dragon?
@23 ftw = for the win
@22 5’9″ for a man IS a midget
@16 ftw
Wasn’t he in that timeless 80′s classic movie “The Jewel of the Nile” starring a dashing Michael Douglas?
Strabo
@25: where I’m from, 5’9″ is considered “Jewish 6 feet”
@16 Brilliant. Esp. when read out load w/Arabic accent.
austin powers ftw…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvxe04wGmTw
agreed, we didn’t need the extra close up.
Bess,
I am a spitting image of the Prince, who you obviously have a huge crush on.
Call me.
So this could (minus the hundred million, billion comment) be the profile/interview of just about any guy on Wall Street, that’s what I’m getting.
Guarantee you that someone as prestigious as Prince Hidalgo, bleaches their anus.
Jim Cramerica
What a magnificent beast! The horse is impressive, too.
The reason he only sleeps 5 to 8 hours a night is because he’s doing 3 girls at a time all night.
Elliot Spitzer
This guy has Jefferies analyst written all over him.
Where is THAT pic of HRH bending over?
Nothing says “man’s man” like a mullet and a turtleneck.
The Arabic version of Dos Equis “The Most Interesting Man in the World”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bc0WjTT0Ps
@14 — nice
God, he’s so inspiring, sorta like the Arab Steve McQueen.If he isn’t the coolest lucky sperm donor alive this side of Dubai, than I don’t know who else is!
@ 21 — that’s because he’s a fucking centaur, you numb nuts!!!
I thought FTW was “fuck the what,” but I still knew it was a good thing.
talk about being born on third base and thinking you hit a triple…
In the early days of the debacle didn’t maria b interview this guy and wasn’t he all about crying in his porridge?
The only thing that could make this guy a bigger DB is if he was hanging around wih Michael Jackson… oh wait:
http://www.mjj.altervista.org/immagini/gallerie/MJ_VIP/images/MJ%20&%20Al%20Waleed_jpg.jpg
16 wins.
Isn’t this guy just some Saudi oil brat who just happened to make a huge (bad) investment in a shitty financial conglomerate? Yawn.
douche@48- these pics are not a “yawn.”
@46 http://dealbreaker.com/2009/06/charlie-gasparino-recommends-p.php
@48 WTF are you talking about? This was the post of the day.
Larry Summers also only sleeps 5 hours a night…
@51
At NIGHT, yes, but he gets another three hours of sleep from his combined daily cat naps.
I’m curious.
How many wives he’s got?
They are allowed 4.
MENLO COLLEGE is that where his HORSE GOT TRAINED???
SYRACUSE is where his horse mastered the art of racing???
I don’t understand it!
-MaxWatters-
His hands have healing powers, but are also devastating weapons. He has mastered the five point palm exploding heart technique. His scent repels mosquitoes. Bulls refuse to fight him. He is…the most interesting man in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Alwaleed
“Doubts about the source of income
The Economist has expressed doubts about the source of income of Prince Al Waleed and whether he is a front man for other Saudi investors. According to it, he has not earned enough income from his investments to pay for all that he has spent in the 1990s. The mystery goes back to that first stake in Citicorp. The prince has declared that this money came entirely from his personal funds. He says he started out in 1979 with a loan of just $30,000 from his father. He also mortgaged a house that his father had given him, raising approximately $400,000. And each month, as a grandson of Ibn Saud, he receives $15,000. “You could barely clothe a Saudi prince for such sums, let alone furnish him with a multi-billion-dollar empire. Nevertheless, by 1991 Prince Alwaleed had felt able to risk an investment of $797m in Citicorp”, writes the magazine.[3]“
Prince Alwaleeds Tips For Staying Rich And Fit:
1) Be born a Saudi Prince.
2) Exercise
Menlo College is where quite a few CEOs have gone and even one of the Bass brothers. It attracted in the 60s a lot of rich foreigners and idiot old money children from the North East. I had never heard of it until I realized my MD (years ago) had gone there. His rolodex was ridiculous from that school.
You know, if they ever think of making a movie on this guy, the Indian actor, Anil Kapoor, would be a perfect casting choice.
Is he sporting a mullet? Who knew that deep down he was a redneck.
Is he sporting a mullet? Who knew that deep down he was a redneck.
Is he sporting a mullet? Who knew that deep down he was a redneck.
He hedged is C with crude futures and broke even last year. He didn’t lose a dollar. Remember the line from Syriana “100 years ago you were riding horses around the desert cutting each others heads off. 100 years from now by doing that again” So true.
GWB
Who figures an immigrant’s going to have a pony? Do you know what the odds are on that? I mean, in all the pictures I saw of immigrants on boats coming into New York harbor, I never saw one of them sitting on a pony.