"No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat."
"Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big."
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Deng Xiaoping
Politician
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese leader known for his pivotal role in transforming China's economy through pragmatic reforms and opening up to the global market.
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"Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership."
"China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it."
"Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious."
"A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy."
"Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet."