Deng Xiaoping Quotes

No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

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.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

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.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

Let some people get rich first.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

Seek truth from facts.

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.

By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you.

To get rich is glorious.

In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character.

I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat

The minority yields to the majority!

Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.

In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions.

For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't really show respect for Chairman Mao.

Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?

Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.