Standing Tallest

Shing Huei Peh

Chapter 12 in Strictly Business:The Kwek Leng Beng Story, 2023, pp 125-132 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Ask Kwek Leng Beng about any financial crises, economic recessions and global meltdowns, and his reactions are almost always a dull stare into space at a seemingly boring question, followed by a gentle shrug. “We are conservative, we don’t borrow a lot,” he said. “I would tell my staff, have no fear. It doesn’t bother me.” For a man who has adroitly followed his father’s contrarian business acumen of seizing opportunities in crises, a bearish market is when he transforms into a bull. Through oil crises, recessions, race riots and even the sudden independence of his country, nothing had fazed Kwek and Hong Leong…

Keywords: Kwek Leng Beng; Hong Leong Group; Hong Leong; Singapore; Millennium Hotel; Millenium Hotel; 9/11; The Plaza; authorised biography; CDL; City Development Ltd; Donald Trump (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L2 L21 L26 L85 M1 M13 M16 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811284496_0012 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789811284496_0012 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811284496_0012

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().