Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH, SPMJ, informally known by his initials LKY, was the first Prime Minister of Singapore, governing for three decades. Lee is recognised as the nation's founding father, with the country described as transitioning from the "third world to first world in a single generation" under his leadership...
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth16 September 1923
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Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.
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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.
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Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.
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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.
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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.
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I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.
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I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.
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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.
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If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
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What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.
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If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
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Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.
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The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.
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I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I'm not sure he can be. He can be trained; he can be disciplined.