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

You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.

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

If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.

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.

I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.