Stanley Ho quotes

“Macau is democratic and free enough.. it's prosperous enough. Why do people need to do this?.”
-- Stanley Ho

#People Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau.”
-- Stanley Ho

Source : "Hong Kong Business Tycoon Stanley Ho TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2004.

#War Quotes #Air Quotes #Government Quotes

“I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.”
-- Stanley Ho

Source : "Hong Kong Business Tycoon Stanley Ho TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2004.

#Sports Quotes

“Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.”
-- Stanley Ho

Source : "Hong Kong Business Tycoon Stanley Ho TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2004.

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.”
-- Stanley Ho

#Successful Quotes #Las Vegas Quotes #Cities Quotes

“We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy.”
-- Stanley Ho

Source : "Hong Kong Business Tycoon Stanley Ho TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2004.

#Issues Quotes #Giving Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.”

“Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.”

“I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.”

“What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.”

“Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.”

Source : Twitter post from May 08, 2013

“I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.