Lee Kuan Yew
Great leaders mirror the qualities of the nations they lead.
Kuan Yew Lee • The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
Kuan Yew Lee • The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
For over 30 years we have aimed for an egalitarian society. If we want to have successful entrepreneurs, Singaporeans have to accept a greater income disparity between the successful and the not so successful.
Kuan Yew Lee • The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
“The scarcest resources in any organization are performing people. Since World War II, the U.S. military—and so far no one else—has learned to test its placement decisions. It now thinks through what it expects of senior officers before it puts them into key commands. It then appraises their performance against those expectations. And it constantly
... See moreAnyone wanting to change the world needs to cultivate a mix of rationality and intuition, as well as a mix of arrogance and humility: the arrogance to believe that they may be able to alter the course of human history, but also the humility to observe and change their views. American investor George Gilder wrote about entrepreneurship that ‘the fir
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The system that we inherited from the British was lopsided. Too much emphasis was laid on the examination and the paper qualification. We were, therefore, rearing a whole generation of softies, who are clever; who wore spectacles but who were weak from want of enough exercise, enough sunshine, and with not enough guts in them. That was all right fo
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