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Success is an integrated system when it results from strategic thinking, planning, and execution entrusted to skilled personnel who excel at achieving goals, challenging all circumstances, and racing against time to ensure that the results are greater and better than expected.

The news that was the talk of the world yesterday is the rise of the Saudi Public Investment Fund to the third position among the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world in terms of asset value, which reached (1.125 trillion dollars). This news was the highlight in global economic news bulletins, and analysts were busy explaining and interpreting the whirlwind created by the fund during a short period of its management according to the strategy and criteria of the National Vision 2030.

For those who are not specialists in economic affairs, and as citizens observing what is happening in our homeland, our interpretation of the enormous leap achieved by the fund is simple and does not require much searching for details. It is merely a success within a system of successes in all aspects. The vision decided that we would not be prisoners of oil; because we have much that we can achieve as diverse sources of national income. We had an investment fund, but it was narrow-minded, limited in movement, and modest in ambition. It was part of the slow, monotonous performance of other institutions during a past where we looked in awe at the achievements of others and did not seek to activate our latent potentials.

However, when we believed in our capabilities and potentials, set a clear vision and targets for them, and employed unconventional execution mechanisms, the system of successes began to be realized and continued with excellence that amazed the world, and the level reached by the Public Investment Fund is just one of them. We have transitioned from a time of being impressed by others without matching them to a time of impressing others with what we accomplish.