What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job?
Recorded Lee Kuan Yew said elsewhere, not written here
Having found suitable men, our next problem was to keep them and nurture them until they were ready. To do that I had to give them work of significance to do, and not treat them as apprentices. As I allotted them important tasks, some of the old guard became apprehensive for their own positions. They saw no reason why these bright, young, energetic men who had not contributed to the struggle, should come in and displace them before they were ready to go.

Singapore Press Club, Petir (People's Action Party), reproducing the speech in full, 7 June 1996 source ↗

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Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
What is rewarding about the priesthood is, one, that you have an incredible privilege of being privy to some of the most extraordinary things about people. I mean, as their parish priest, you visit people who are sick, say, on their death bed and they tell you things that they probably have not shared with any other person. You are privileged to bring the Holy Sacrament to people at a time when they are probably at their lowest. But you also have the privilege of meeting up with people at their moment of great joy, when they are getting married, or when they have a child baptized.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 12 June 2004 source ↗
François Ozon Film director and screenwriter
Not always. Actually I like to do movies but I’m quite bored with all the work around. All the promotion. Actually, when you’re successful, all this work around is quite difficult. But, I have to deal with that.
Recorded Filmmaker Magazine, March 2013 source ↗
Tim Cook Chief executive of Apple
In every way at every turn, the question we ask ourselves is not what can we do, but what should we do?.”
Recorded Duke University Commencement, Duke Today, 13 May 2018 source ↗
Henry R. Kravis Financier; co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
We stress this commitment by saying, "Our job begins the day we buy a company." It's not about the transaction itself.
Recorded KKR, 2024 source ↗

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Question What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong? Values & belief
Our young should prepare to seek their fortunes in this golden age. It is silly to moan that properties and cars are going out of their reach. They will never be out of reach of those who seize their opportunities. Of course those on profit sharing schemes and stock options will do better than those on salaries. But even those on salaries will have their salaries double in the next 10 years of high growth. The big winners will be those who find a vein of gold and dig it out. But you have to work to find it and dig it out. Those who bemuse and befuddle themselves into believing the great opportunities are already behind them will regret it when they see their more discerning and perceptive contemporaries prosper.
Recorded Singapore Press Club, Petir (People's Action Party), reproducing the speech in full, 7 June 1996 source ↗
Question What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore? Time & hindsight
The sky has turned brighter. There is a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of that rainbow. To the young and the not too old, I say, look at the horizon, find that rainbow, go ride it. Not all will be rich; quite a few will find a vein of gold; but all who pursue that rainbow will have a joyous and exhilarating ride and some profit.
Recorded Singapore Press Club (title proposed by the Club), Singapore Press Club, Petir (People's Action Party), reproducing the speech in full, 7 June 1996 source ↗

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