Temasek Report 2010

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You can make the tomorrow you want
provided you have the wisdom,
the guts and the will to struggle for it.

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S Rajaratnam (1915 – 2006)
Former Senior Minister, Singapore

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We should be able to seize every
advantage which the current situation offers us.
We must be prepared to innovate, to strike out
into new lines of activity whenever these
are necessary for our well-being.

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Goh Keng Swee (1918 – 2010)
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore

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In thinking about the future we should
approach it more like a chess player.....
The chess player plans his every move
by thinking many steps ahead. A
one-move chess player is out by
the time he makes his second move.

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S Rajaratnam (1915 – 2006)
Former Senior Minister, Singapore

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We must always keep ourselves
competitive and efficient. Then our
future is secure.

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Tay Eng Soon (1940 – 1993)
Former Senior Minister of State for Education, Singapore

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If we prepare ourselves for
adversity, we shall be better able
to ride it out when it comes.

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Goh Keng Swee (1918 – 2010)
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore

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In a profession, practitioners have
not only to be proficient but also to
maintain at all times high standards
of ethics and integrity

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Hon Sui Sen (1916 – 1983)
Former Minister for Finance, Singapore

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Never take the future for granted,
for it is what we make of it.

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E W Barker (1920 – 2001)
Former Minister for Law, Singapore

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The past is unchangeable, the present
will disappear in a moment but there
will always be a tomorrow
to be shaped as you wish.

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S Rajaratnam (1915 – 2006)
Former Senior Minister, Singapore

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It is imperative that we should never, either
through extravagance or carelessness, fritter
away all that we had so laboriously built up.
We must build on the foundation of the
accumulated experience of the decade
and ensure that progress and prosperity
will continue to higher levels of consolidation.

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Goh Keng Swee (1918 – 2010)
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore