7 Quotes & Sayings By Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew (6 June 1923 – 23 March 2015) was the first prime minister of Singapore, holding the office from 1959 to 1990, and again from 1990 until his death in 2015. Yew was a senior minister for most of his career and was a Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1988. He became Prime Minister when Singapore gained independence from Malaysia in 1965. He led the People's Action Party (PAP) to two consecutive victories in elections—the first time that a ruling party had done so since independence—and left office in 1990 at the head of an elected government Read more

He was one of the world's longest-serving elected leaders.

Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You...
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Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will believe you Lee Kuan Yew
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If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. Lee Kuan Yew
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China itself is now in the process of sloughing off not only the communist system, but also those outdated parts of Confucianism that prevent the rapid acquisition of knowledge needed to adjust to new ways of life and work. Lee Kuan Yew
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Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power. Lee Kuan Yew
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The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people. Lee Kuan Yew
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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. Lee Kuan Yew