Mahathir Mohamad People Quotations

Businesses, large and small, have been bankrupted. The social well-being of the people has been disrupted.

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even.

People tend to respond more positively to the friendly approach than to confrontations. Pushed into a corner, even the weakest will fight.

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.

Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took over were mainly civil servants: people who were serving the Government.