"What I fear is complacency. When things always……" — Lee Kuan Yew
"What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work."
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85 Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew has 85 quotes on this site.
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I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the…
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Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something…
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I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability…
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I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been,…
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Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my…
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Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe…
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If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in…
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You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative…
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That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I…
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If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
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If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence…
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But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that…
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More Always Become Quotes
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always…
— Jane Addams
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which…
— Jean Cocteau
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You can always become better.
— Tiger Woods
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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and…
— Joseph Black
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the…
— Plato
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I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
— Tim O'Reilly
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If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner.
— Bruce Fordyce
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You can always become the person you would have liked to be.
— Napoleon Hill
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I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought,…
— Derek Jacobi
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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little…
— Hermann Hesse
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So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something…
— Yann Martel
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Things always become obvious after the fact
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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