What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image