Lee Kuan Yew: A Model of Exemplary Leadership
Lee led Singapore for 31 years and was widely credited with transforming the small port city into today's global financial hub. He stepped down in 1990 and remained a key political figure in Singapore as Nelson Mandela was in South Africa, Martin Luther King Jr. in America.
Lee Kuan Yew was a charismatic and unapologetic figure, a co-founder of People's Action Party.
He built a meritocratic, multiracial nation. Singapore has no natural resources, Lee gave a new economic model that set Singapore on the path of prosperity. He turned Singapore into a manufacturing incentives to attract foreign firms.
Under Lee Kuan Yes, Singapore became a center for oil refining industry. The city-state grew wealthy and later developed into a major financial center.
“I am not here to play somebody else's game. I have a few million people's lives to account for. Singapore will survive.”
- Lee Kuan Yew
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