At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline

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

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.

I’m very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I’ll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I’ll do it.

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

The quieter the mind the louder the soul.

There is a powerful for within each of us.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection and they memorized my songs in Spanish.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.