Top 49 Quotes & Sayings by Mohammad bin Salman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Saudi Arabian royalty Mohammad bin Salman.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Mohammad bin Salman

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, colloquially known as MBS, is a Saudi Arabian politician who is the crown prince, deputy prime minister, and minister of defense of Saudi Arabia. He also serves as the chairman of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs and chairman of the Council of Political and Security Affairs. He is the seventh son of King Salman bin Abdulaziz and the eldest of six sons born to King Salman's third wife, Fahda bint Falah Al Hithlain. Mohammed bin Salman controls his father's government and is considered the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia. In June 2017 King Salman removed his nephew Muhammad bin Nayef from the position of crown prince and appointed Mohammed bin Salman in his place.

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes - and that is why I am in a hurry.
The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.
The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less. — © Mohammad bin Salman
The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.
We want, as the Saudi people, to enjoy the coming days and concentrate on developing our society and developing ourselves as individuals and families while retaining our religion and customs.
We have been influenced by you in the U.S. a lot. Not because anybody exerted pressure on us - if anyone puts pressure on us, we go the other way. But if you put a movie in the cinema and I watch it, I will be influenced.
We have many opportunities in mining: we have more than 6% of world reserves of uranium. We have many unutilised assets. We have four million square metres in Mecca alone of unutilised state-owned lands.
We represent the moderate teachings and principles of Islam.
There is no common ground between us and Iran.
The Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated media outlets in Egypt tried to sour the ties between our two countries, but our ties are very strong. No negative stance has been taken by either side against the other. Rumors are being spread by the enemies of our two countries. We pay no attention to them.
There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.
The journey towards restoring balance to markets, led by the kingdom, is proving successful despite the challenges.
The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion... We will not allow this to happen.
We are a primary target for the Iranian regime... We won't wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. Instead, we'll work so that the battle is for them in Iran. — © Mohammad bin Salman
We are a primary target for the Iranian regime... We won't wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. Instead, we'll work so that the battle is for them in Iran.
We have developed a case of oil addiction in Saudi Arabia.
We can uproot the Al Houthis and Saleh in a matter of days.
I had elements that were much more than what Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates had. If I work according to their methods, what will I create? All of this was in my head when I was young.
We want to reach free energy markets, but with subsidy programmes for those with low income, and not to have the subsidy in the form of lowering the energy prices, but through other programmes.
Without a doubt, at the end of the day, Neom will be floated in the markets. The first zone floated in the public markets. It's as if you float the city of New York.
Neom will have a lot of ports, some of them in Saudi Arabia and some of them in Egypt.
People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear, and not transparent.
By 2020, we'll be able to live without oil.
We will support anything to stabilize the oil demand and supply.
No one involved in corruption will be spared, no matter who they are, I assure you. Whether a minister, a prince, or anyone. Anyone who is guilty of corruption will be held accountable.
Righteousness is on our side.
Iran believes that before Imam Mahdi reappears, it must prepare a fertile ground for him and that it must control the Muslim world.
My father saw that there is no way we can stay in the G-20 and grow with this level of corruption. In early 2015, one of his first orders to his team was to collect all the information about corruption - at the top. This team worked for two years until they collected the most accurate information, and then they came up with about 200 names.
The suspension of allowances was temporary and was to be reviewed periodically. It was reviewed in the appropriate time after our oil revenue improved.
It's only by coincidence I started working with my father - all because of King Abdullah's decision not to grant my promotion. God bless his soul, he did me a favor.
We will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external markets.
All we're doing is going back to what we were: a moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world and to all traditions and people.
The first commercial judge in Medina was a woman!
We will not waste 30 years of our lives dealing with extremist ideas; we will destroy them today.
There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. — © Mohammad bin Salman
There will not be any investment or movement or growth in any region of the world without the voice of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
I have all points of strength, and I have the opportunities to increase our non-oil revenues in many sectors, and I have a global economic network.
We believe women have rights in Islam that they've yet to obtain.
If Saudi Aramco is listed, then it must announce its statements, and it will do that every quarter. It will be under the supervision of all Saudi banks, all analysts, all Saudi thinkers. Even more, all international banks and research and planning centres in the world will monitor it intensively.
We will build the city from scratch. It will be drone-friendly and a center for the development of robotics. We want to create something different. Neom is a place for dreamers who want to create something new in the world, something extraordinary.
It's not Neom's duty to create jobs for Saudis. Neom's duty is to be a world hub for everyone in the whole world.
Over the year,s the government launched more than one 'war on corruption,' and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.
We will not continue to be in the post-'79 era. That age is over.
The first robot in Neom will be Neom itself.
The idea is not to restructure the economy as much as to seize the opportunities available that we didn't address before.
We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.
We want to exert pressure on wealthy people. — © Mohammad bin Salman
We want to exert pressure on wealthy people.
We are a G20 country. One of the biggest world economies. We're in the middle of three continents. Changing Saudi Arabia for the better means helping the region and changing the world. So this is what we are trying to do here. And we hope we get support from everyone.
What happened in the region in the last 30 years is not the Middle East. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, people wanted to copy this model in different countries; one of them is Saudi Arabia. We didn't know how to deal with it. And the problem spread all over the world.
A war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is the beginning of a major catastrophe in the region, and it will reflect very strongly on the rest of the world. For sure, we will not allow any such thing.
Vision 2030 is about a lot of big opportunities, so Aramco is one of them, Neom another opportunity.
Iran's goal is to gain control of the Two Holy Mosques.
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