You want to be a socialist? First make money.

You want to be a socialist? First make money.

http://studentry.sg/2012/01/01/the-incendiary-industrialist-interview-with-phillip-yeo/" Phillip Yeo walks into a room and the atmosphere feels electrified. The 65-year-old chairman of SPRING Singapore possesses the energy of a much younger man. He does not pause for introductions, or even to allow the team from U@live to set up his microphone. “You want to be a socialist? First make money. Which means you must be a capitalist first. If you don’t make money, how do you support socialist objectives? Socialism means going around with a begging bowl. If you want to help people, you need to find funds. You need to find a way to find money to finance social objectives. To help the less fortunate you need to make money – just don’t pocket it all yourself with big bonuses,” he said. It is rare to find someone in Singapore, especially one as influential as Yeo, who is willing to s...

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