“It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.”

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

You can’t have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that’s very important.

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It’s a different driver, this is exactly what’s happening to the cabinet.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

But I have always said that it’s important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it’s very important.

Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it’s when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you’re growing so quickly.

Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

Life balance is a myth. It’s an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it’s about proportion – it’s really a work hard/play hard equation.

I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don’t embrace the status quo.

A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.

The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we’re doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.