Lee Kuan Yew Inspiring Quotes

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• I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Apology, Government

  "Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy". Book by Professor Daron Acemoglu, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, 2006.

• What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, People, Want

• I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Mistake, Believe

• Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Integrity, Government

  Address To The General Assembly Of The International Press Institute At Helsinki Wednesday, June 9, 1971.

• I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Jobs, War

• Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Sick, Bed

  Said at National Day Rally in 1988. "The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries". Book edited by Nicholas Tarling, 1992.

• If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, People, Leader

  "Success Stories Lee Kuan Yew". DVD, documentary, 2002.

• Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Genius, Moron

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.142, Editions Didier Millet

• Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Games, Iron

  Said at a rally in 1980. "Singapore's Founding Father Lee Kuan Yew Dies at 91", www.bbc.com. March 23, 2015.

• I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Worst Enemy, Mind

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.157, Editions Didier Millet

• I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Citizens, Done

  The Straits Times, April 20, 1987.

• I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Men, Leader

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.54, Editions Didier Millet

• If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Business, Outsourcing

  "Rage against off-shoring is very real" by David Kirkpatrick, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2004.

• I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Politically Correct

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.159, Editions Didier Millet

• I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Thinking, Wife

  "One Man's View of the World". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 2013.

• Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Add, Analogies

  The Straits Times, April 22, 2007.

• One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Men, Erratic

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.46, Editions Didier Millet

• If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Nannies, Proud

  "From Third World to First, The Singapore Story: 1965-2000". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 2000.

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