“As far as I remember, I had always wanted to be a business- man,” says Prince Al Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. “There is not one moment where I thought ‘I’m at the top.’ I always want to achieve more.” For the casual observer, it’s difficult to see how much higher Prince Al Waleed can climb. As the Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), he is at the helm of a truly global company, with significant investments in enterprises ranging from LBC Sat to Citigroup to London’s Savoy Hotel. The company, founded by Prince Al Waleed in 1980 in a small, extremely modest office in Riyadh, built its formidable financial base through investments in construction, housing development and educational projects, moving on to banking, information technology, the auto indus- try, retail, entertainment, tourism, media and more.