He will go down in history as one of Asia's most famous (or infamous) statesmen. "The …… [ 展开全部 ]
Singapore Story" tells one side of the story - Lee's. Former Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew has long been acclaimed for his outspoken persona and alert and thorough intellect. However, it is not certain that he is fully aware of his impact (or maybe he is) on other people - specially on Tunku Abdul Rahman. With this, the inaugural volume of his autobiography, he also proves himself as an charming and pleasant narrator - and therein lies the problem. The tone of the book is almost benign - but was her really. His tale begins as an distinguished student from a non pretentious bourgeois, English speaking home (this proves problematic in the future as Lee makes his way around the Chinese speaking communities)... [ 收起 ]
Will Singapore the independent city-state disappear? The island of Singapore will not, but thesovereign nation it has become, able to make its way and play its role
in the world, could vanish
I learnt to ignore criticism and advice from experts and quasiexperts, especially academics in the social and political sciences. Theyhave pet theories on how a society should develop to approximate their
ideal, especially how poverty should be reduced and welfare extendedI always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
We learnt on the job and learnt quickly. If there was one formulafor our success, it was that we were constantly studying how to makethings work, or how to make them work better. I was never a prisonerof any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test Iapplied to every theory or scheme was, would it work? This was thegolden thread that ran through my years in office. If it did not work, orthe results were poor, I did not waste more time and resources on it. Ialmost never made the same mistake twice, and I tried to learn from themistakes others had made.
Shell..concentrated on what they termed a man's "currently estimated potential" . This was determined by three qualities- a person's power of analysis, his imagination and his sense of reality. Together they made up an over-arching attributes Shell called "helicopter quality", the ability to see facts or problems in a larger context and to identify and zoom in on critical details.
in the world, could vanish
ideal, especially how poverty should be reduced and welfare extendedI always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
而他认为有几个因素是中国发展存在的变数，第一大因素就是台湾问题。第二个变数是城镇化问题，第三个是在内陆省份与沿海发达省份之间的收入和发展和生活质量的鸿沟问题。第四个也是最深层的一个因素，是下一代彻底不同的价值观和渴求，他认为，特别是跟中国有相近文化的，台湾，日本，韩国，这些国家地区的治理情况和社会发展情况，对于中国人的思考会有比较大的影响。（这话对了一小半，曾经是 很快超越这阶段）。
他觉得中国的风险在于，一是中国的银行体系，二是伴随着国企改革带来的高失业率而没有社会保障，还有一个问题，就是老龄化问题，环保风险 当然最重要的他认为就是腐败问题。
他认为中国最大的希望是在年轻时代就出国留学的年轻一代的身上。他们知道真正大足够好的世界是什么。
他也说美国不可能把自己的意志强加于中国，让中国按照美国设定的议程去发展，中国人要做出改变，只可能是出于自己的愿望和目的。
Karl Marx.