Thursday 26 March 2015

Wisdom from Lee Kuan Yew



  1. If you can’t think because you can’t chew, try a banana.
  2. Don’t change ‘NO’ to ‘YES’. Don’t be a fool. If there was a good reason to say ‘NO’, it must remain ‘NO’ but the man must be told politely.
  3. If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline.
  4. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.
  5. The Americans are great missionaries. They have an irrepressible urge to convert others.
  6. Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.
  7. I do not know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.
  8. If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and our competitors do not. You are putting yourself out of business.
  9. I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
  10. Dear God, if today I lose hope, please remind me that your plans are better than my dreams.
  11. Dumb politicians are not the problem. The problem is the dumb people that keep voting for them

Wednesday 18 March 2015

Quotes on Tolerance

  1. The highest result of education is tolerance.
  2. Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
  3. One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.
  4. Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
  5. Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.
  6. In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.
  7. Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
  8. It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
  9. Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
  10. Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.
  11. Intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

Friday 6 March 2015

One Liners for You

  1. War does not determine who is right – only who is left.
  2. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
  3. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it’s still on the list.
  4. We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
  5. If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of payments.
  6. The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
  7. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
  8. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
  9. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
  10. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station..
  11. Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.