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发帖数: 2306 | 1 "But it is possible to create a society in which everybody is given not
equal rewards, but equal opportunities, and where rewards vary not in
accordance with the ownership of property, but with the worth of a person's
contribution to that society."
"I did not understand what a cosseted life would do to the spirit of
enterprise of a people, diminishing their desire to achieve and succeed. I
believed that wealth came naturally from wheat growing in the fields,
orchards bearing fruit every summer, and factories turning out all that was
needed to maintain a comfortable life. Only two decades later, when I had to
make an outdated entrepot economy feed a people, did I realize we needed to
create the wealth before we can share it. And to create wealth, high
motivation and incentives are crucial to drive a people to achieve, to take
risks for profit, or there will be nothing to share."
"You must want. That is the crucial thing. Before you have, you must want to
have. And to want to have means to be able, first, to perceive what it is
you want; secondly, how to discipline and organize yourself in order to
possess the things you want-the industrial sinews of our modern economic
base; and thirdly, the grit and the stamina, which means cultural mutations
in the way of life in large parts of the tropical areas of the world where
the human being has never found it necessary to work in the summer, harvest
before autumn, and save up for the winter."
"You cannot have people just striving for a nebulous ideal"
"Cradle-to-grave welfarism blunted the ambition of many budding
entrepreneurs"
"Worse, high personal taxes dampened the desire of many to achieve wealth
and success"
"respect for those starting new businesses"
"acceptance of failure in entrepreneurial and innovation efforts"
"tolerance for a high degree of income disparity" | f******t
发帖数: 19544 | 2 有东西方文化价值观的区别。还有不同文明阶段的区别。
李光耀一些观点，从文明发展的角度看，不是啥光彩的。或可算是为富不仁。 |
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