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"Please finish every grain of rice in your bowl. Do not forget that each grain represents one drop of farmer's blood."

— Robert Kuok Robert Kuok: A Memoir (2018)

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I realized that true human values and human worth have almost zero connection with money.

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Having all the cash suddenly siphoned out of a company is like draining all the blood from the body.

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He would start a business, lose money, close it and start another. That would make money for a while, and then the cycle would repeat.

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I saw what made the Japanese tick. I admired their discipline. That's what made Japan what it is today: discipline - not brilliance, but discipline. You obeyed orders, even if the orders were wrong.

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I must say, the Japanese soldiers were stupid. Many of their actions made no sense. They really believed, like Hitler's Nazis, that they were a superior race, and that it was their sacred duty to uplift the poor, colonized Asians and to liberate them!

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