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the fascinating thing about lee kuan yew is he took three important decisions right at the beginning for Singapore each one of them now seems obvious each one at the time was deeply contested number one he said everyone's going to speak English in Singapore now there were lots of people who said to him at the time no no we need to have our own local language you know we need to be true to our roots and everything he said no English is the language of the world we're all going to speak English secondly he said we're going to get the best intellectual capital from what ever exists in the world and we're going to bring it to Singapore and again people said no we should stand on our own two feet and you're also bringing the British should we just you know we've got all these disputes with and he said no I'm going to bring in the best from wherever they are and they're going to come to Singapore and the third thing he did was he said there's going to be no corruption and one of the ways we're going to do that is we're going to make sure our political leaders are well paid which the Singapore leaders are the best paid in the world and there's going to be Zero Tolerance of corruption those are the three decisions that were instrumental in building Singapore today