If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

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Lee Kuan Yew
Founding PM of Singapore (1959-1990; 1923-2015). Transformed a resource-poor city-state into one of Asia's wealthiest through meritocracy and anti-corruption laws — paired with press controls and detention without trial.
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Lee Kuan Yew's Other Quotes
I am not given to making sense out of life — or coming up with some grand narrative on it — other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life.
At the end of the day, what I cherish most are the human relationships.
Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try.
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