Lee Kuan Yew

How to Take Over the World

Benjamin Wilson

Self-improvement, Education, History

5 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Lee Kuan Yew took a crowded, dirty, poor port town, and turned it into one of the world's great cities. How was he able to lead such an incredible transformation of Singapore? --- Sponsors: https://www.costofglory.com/cog-retreats/texas-retreat - Austin Retreat with the Cost of Glory January 23-26. Use code TAKEOVER for $200 off. https://vanman.shop/discount/TAKEOVER - Use code TAKEOVER for 10% off your order https://www.vesto.com/ - All of your company's financial accounts in one view HTTOTW Premium - For all endnotes, takeaways, and bonus episode, subscribe to How to Take Over the World Premium --- Stay in touch: Twitter/X: @BenWilsonTweets Instagram: @HTTOTW Email me: [email protected] Sources: No Man Is An Island: A Portrait of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew by James Minchin Lee Kuan Yew: The Grandmaster's Insights on China, United States, and the World by Graham Allison, Michael McConnohie, et al. From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew Singapore: A Modern History by Michael D Barr --- Writing, research, and production by Ben Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And let there be no mistakes about this.
0:03.0	Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him or give it up.
0:09.0	This is not a game of cards.
0:11.0	This is your life and mine.
0:13.0	I've spent a whole lifetime building this.
0:16.0	And as long as I'm in charge, nobody's going to knock it down.
0:25.6	I'm going to show you how great I am. This was our final hour.
0:28.6	I just want to say from the bottom of me heart,
0:31.6	I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.
0:45.9	Hello and welcome to How to Take Over the World.
0:47.0	This is Ben Wilson.
0:50.5	Today we are talking about Li Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore.
0:54.0	Singapore is a very small island off the southern coast of Malaysia. When Likwanyu took over
0:55.7	as prime minister, it was a small, dirty backwater port town. Now it is a gleaming modern metropolis,
1:02.0	one of the great cities of the world up there with London, New York, and Tokyo. He's one of the
1:05.9	great statesmen of the 20th century, respected around the world by presidents, prime ministers,
1:10.4	reformers, academics.
1:11.8	And I'd like to start off this episode with a quote from his book, from third world to first.
1:15.7	He says, there are books to teach you how to build a house, how to repair engines, how to write a book.
1:21.5	But I have not seen a book on how to build a nation out of a disparate collection of immigrants from
1:26.3	China, British India, and the Dutch East Indies, or how to make a living for its people when its former economic
1:32.4	role is becoming defunct. So I think this episode should be of interest to reformers, statesmen,
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