There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.

There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

Not every rider is a horseman and not every horseman is a knight.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No.

We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.

The technology of the future is made possible by the science of today.

Are you sure you have enough sweetener in that? I could offer to conscript the rest of the cubes from the galley for you.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.