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🇸🇬 Lee Kuan Yew
🇸🇬 From Swampy Island to High-Performance Hub: When Singapore was expelled from Malaysia in 1965, he took the helm. In a short time, he transformed the resource-poor city-state into a highly developed economy.
Measures: Tough anti-corruption policies, English as the official language, and attracting companies like Exxon, Shell, and HP.
Strict Rules: No chewing gum, heavy fines for careless littering, prison for corruption.
Result: One of the safest, cleanest, and most efficient economies—and one of the world’s leading financial centers.
1965: GDP per capita ~ USD 500
2025: GDP per capita ~ USD 90,000
That’s more than in the USA, UK, and Europe.
👉 Lesson learned: Anyone who consistently works toward clear goals, with a coherent vision and strategy, and measurable KPIs, can make the “impossible” possible—whether building a company or a nation.
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