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Quotable Quotes

• Nassim Taleb: Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet. (UK Sunday Times, Jun 1, 2008)
• Lim Swee Say: I was never strong in language. When I speak in Mandarin, people will think I'm English-educated. Then when I speak in English, people will think I'm Chinese-educated... I'm Chinese-educated, and my Chinese sucks. (ST, May 1, 2010)
• Times of India: Today Singapore is a very neat, prosperous and liveable city. It is free from civic violence but its civic life is dull. The city-state has no great heroes. It has no grand story to tell the world. (Mar 19, 2010)
• MM Lee: Singaporeans have become less hard-driving and hard-striving. This is why it is a good thing that the nation has welcomed so many Chinese immigrants. (National Geographic, Jan 2010)
• Straits Times: The distinctions between citizens and PRs could not have been clearer. (ST, Oct 24, 2009)
• Financial Times alphaville: Singapore's acquisitive Temasek is up to its old tricks again, buying high and selling low... (May 15, 2009)
• Minister Gan Kim Yong: ... if in a crisis situation, you are willing to sit at home and do nothing for one year, not doing anything, that means you are not very flexible. (CNA, Apr 19, 2009)
• Wong, ex-banker: It's all about making money, not because we love the bank. (ST, Feb 7, 2009)
• Reuters India: Singapore ranks alongside Kenya for income disparity. (Jan 11, 2009)