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Deng Xiaoping Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.”
— Deng Xiaoping, China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society
Tagged: Color, Cat, mouse, Mice, catch, Worth, ability, Race, purpose, Success, Believe, Ambition
“Cross the river by feeling for stones.”
— Deng Xiaoping, Understanding China Today: An Exploration of Politics, Economics, Society, and International Relations
Tagged: cross, Trials, Difficulties, Feel, crossing, River, wise saying, Wisdom
“Let some people get rich first, and gradually all the people should get rich together.”
— Deng Xiaoping, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Tagged: People, Wealth, rich, Riches, Money, Society, civilization
“A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.”
— Deng Xiaoping, Wikiquote.org: Deng Xiaoping
Tagged: Contradiction, Contradict, Socialism, market, Economy, Society, civilization, Finance, People
“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.”
— Deng Xiaoping, China's Management Revolution: Spirit, Land, Energy
Tagged: Students, many, Number, Education, Study, abroad, travel, Learning, Home, Transformation, Transform, Benefit, country, Society, Mindset, Awareness, Knowledge
“Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.”
— Deng Xiaoping, China, the European Union and the Restructuring of Global Governance
Tagged: low profile, cool head, inconspicuous, Unnoticeable, Lead, Aim, big, goal, Path, strategy
“Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.”
— Deng Xiaoping, China, Japan and Regional Leadership in East Asia
Tagged: Observe, calm, Composure, composed, Capacity, biding time, Wait, Patience, Leadership, Advice, Life, Goals, Ambition
“Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.”
— Deng Xiaoping, Tibet And China In The Twenty-First Century
Tagged: Reasonable, within limits, Students, pupil, Education, Learning, Knowledge, Logic, Action
“Can we tolerate this kind of freedom of speech which flagrantly contravenes the principles of our constitution?”
— Deng Xiaoping, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Tagged: Tolerate, allow, permit, Freedom, Speech, talk, Opinion, Ideas, Freedom of Speech, Principles, Constitution
“It will take years, not just a couple of months, of education to change their thinking.”
— Deng Xiaoping, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Tagged: Time, years, months, Education, Learning, information, Knowledge, Thinking, Mind, Thoughts, Opinion
“The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election; something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.”
— Deng Xiaoping, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Tagged: Politics, President, leader, Government, govern, rule, Election, claims, Truth, Lies, Deceit
“Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.”
— Deng Xiaoping, A Banquet of Consequences: The reality of our unusually uncertain economic future(Financial Times Series)
Tagged: rise, Ascent, Gain, Fast, speed, Too Fast, Steps, slowly, young, Youth
“There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.”
— Deng Xiaoping, The Rare Earth Elements: An Introduction
Tagged: oil, Earth, Resources, Location, Natural Resources, Nature, Natural
“We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (...) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (...) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (...) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.”
— Deng Xiaoping, Wikiquote.org: Deng Xiaoping
Tagged: adopt, Take, advance, Methods, Management, capitalist, country, Socialism, Liberation, Development, system, Society, civilization, Economy, People
“China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.”
— Deng Xiaoping, Cracking the China Conundrum: Why Conventional Economic Wisdom is Wrong
Tagged: China, country, superpower, Position, Power, ability, Politics, World, tyrant, subject, leader, role, rule, bully, bullying, Aggression, exploit, take advantage, social-imperialist, political standing, politician
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