Gabriel Pinkus

“The future is as full of promise as it is fraught with uncertainty.”
― Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership

“This country seems able to do more by accident than any other country can do on purpose.—Employee at Bechtel-McCone B-29 modification plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1943”
― Arthur Herman, Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

“I did not know I was to spend the rest of my life getting Singapore not just to work but to prosper and flourish.”
― Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership

“But it is possible to create a society in which everybody is given not equal rewards, but equal opportunities, and where rewards vary not in accordance with the ownership of property, but with the worth of a person's contribution to that society. In other words, society should make it worth people's while to give their best to the country. This is the way to progress.”
― Lee Kuan Yew