查理芒格 佩新加坡首任總理

"我有一尊他的半身像"：查理芒格談他為何欽佩新加坡首任總理

Aarthi Swaminathan Aarthi Swaminathan ·記者 24, 2021

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伯克希爾哈撒韋公司 (BRK-A, BRK-B) 的副主席查理芒格進一步詳述了他對執政三十年的新加坡首任總理李光耀的深深欽佩。

“像李光耀這樣的人並不多見，”芒格周三在 Daily Journal 年會上回答了有關這位傳奇投資者為何欽佩這位東南亞政治家的問題。 “所以我當然很佩服他。 我家有一尊李光耀的半身像。 我非常欽佩他。”

芒格重申了他對這位國家開國領袖對這個城邦的巧妙管理的讚揚。

芒格解釋說：“李光耀擁有作為國家建設者的最佳記錄。”他的成績記錄可能是世界曆史上有史以來最好的。 他接管了一片瘧疾沼澤，沒有軍隊……很快，他就把那裏變成了這個光榮的繁榮之地。”

此外，芒格補充說，“他的方法非常簡單。 他說，“弄清楚什麽是有效的，然後去做。” 現在聽起來好像任何人都知道這是有道理的。 ......他是一個非常聰明的人，他有很多好主意，他絕對接管了瘧疾沼澤，並在他有生之年將其變成了現代新加坡。 這絕對是不可思議的。”

1996 年 12 月 30 日，新加坡國務資政李光耀在後港體育場舉行的人民行動黨集會上向公眾發表講話。 新加坡持久的族長李光耀不戰而勝又贏得了五年任期的國會議員，這保證了他在新加坡繼續發揮作用。 法新社照片 ROSLAN RAHMAN（圖片來源應為 ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images）李光耀於 1996 年 12 月 30 日在後港體育場舉行的人民行動黨集會上向公眾發表講話。 （ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP 來自 Getty Images）

“太好了”

隨後在節目中，他還稱讚領導人的兒子、現任總理李顯龍“是個聰明人”。

但歸根結底，李光耀“真是太棒了”，芒格滔滔不絕地說，並指出李光耀鏟除了腐敗“幾乎沒有什麽是他沒有改進的”，從醫療保健到國民儲蓄。

在李光耀幾十年的領導下，新加坡從英國的前哨基地轉變為全球貿易和金融巨頭。

從兩位數的失業率和 1965 年獨立時相對微薄的人均 GDP 516 美元，該國一直被經濟學家和政治家譽為成功的典範，如今人均 GDP 接近 61,000 美元 .

伯克希爾哈撒韋公司副董事長查理芒格於 2013 年 5 月 3 日在內布拉斯加州奧馬哈接受采訪時向路透社發表講話。路透社/Lane Hickenbottom（美國 - 標簽：業務概況）

該國最近因使用為應對 COVID-19 傳播而開發的接觸者追蹤係統而受到審查。

去年 3 月推出的 TraceTogether 應用程序和設備將用於追蹤那些與受 COVID-19 影響的居民有過接觸的人，並被設計為向公眾收集信息的一種方式，這些信息不會傳遞給 當局，除非它是關於接觸者追蹤的。

但是，當 1 月份在議會中透露新加坡警方可以使用這些數據進行刑事調查時，一片嘩然，促使一名記者稱該國為“準專製民主國家”。

據新加坡雅虎新聞報道，政府此後取消了對這些數據的使用，除非涉及對嚴重罪行的調查。

——Aarthi 是雅虎財經的資深記者。 可以通過 [e-mail] 聯係到她。 在推特上關注她@aartiswami。

 

'I have a bust of him': Charlie Munger on why he admires Singapore's first prime minister

 

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 Aarthi Swaminathan · February  24, 2021

 

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Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK-A, BRK-B) Vice Chair Charlie Munger further detailed his deep admiration for Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, who governed for three decades.

“There aren't that many people like Lee Kuan Yew who ever lived,” Munger responded to a question about why the legendary investor admired the Southeast Asian politician at the Daily Journal Annual Meeting on Wednesday. “So of course I admire him. I have a bust of Lee Kuan Yew in my house. I admire him that much.”

Munger reiterated his praise for the nation's founding leader for his deft stewardship of the city-state.

“Lee Kuan Yew had the best record as a nation builder," Munger explained. "He had the probably the best grade record that ever existed in the history of the world. He took over a malarial swamp, with no army … And pretty soon, he turned that into this gloriously prosperous place.”

Furthermore, Munger added, “his method for doing it was so simple. He said, 'Figure out what works and do it.' Now it sounds like anybody would know that made sense. … he was a very smart man, and he had a lot of good ideas and he absolutely took over a malarial swamp and turned it into modern Singapore in his own lifetime. It was absolutely incredible.”

Lee Kuan Yew addresses on December 30, 1996 the public at the People's Action Party rally in Hougang stadium. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

'Just so good'

Later on during the program, he also praised the leader’s son, current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, “who is a bright man.”

 

But ultimately, Lee Kuan Yew “was just so good,” Munger gushed, noting that Lee Kuan Yew rooted out corruption “and there's hardly anything he touched he didn't improve” from health care to national savings.

Under decades of Lee Kuan Yew’s leadership, Singapore transformed itself from a British outpost into a global trade and finance giant.

From unemployment in the double-digits and a relatively meager GDP per capita of $516 at the time of its independence in 1965, the country has been hailed as a success story by economists and politicians alike, and today boasts a GDP per capita of nearly $61,000.

Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation Charlie Munger speaks to Reuters during an interview in Omaha, Nebraska May 3, 2013. REUTERS/Lane Hickenbottom (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS PROFILE)

The country recently came under scrutiny for its use of a contact-tracing system that was developed to address the spread of COVID-19.

The TraceTogether app and device, launched in March last year, would be used to trace those who had come into contact with COVID-19-affected residents and was framed to the public as a way to collect information that wouldn’t be passed on to authorities unless it’s regarding contact tracing.

But when it was revealed in parliament in January that Singapore police could use the data for criminal investigations, an uproar followed, prompting one journalist to call the country a “quasi-authoritarian democracy.”

The government has since walked back usage of the data unless regarding investigations of serious offenses, Yahoo News Singapore reported.

—Aarthi is a senior reporter for Yahoo Finance. She can be reached at [e-mail]. Follow her on Twitter @aarthiswami.