Deng Xiaoping quotes:

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

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.

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

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

Cross the river by feeling for stones.

Reform is China's second revolution.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Let some people get rich first.

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

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

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.

To get rich is glorious.

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

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

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

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.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

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.

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

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

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

We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (...) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (...) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (...) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

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

I donâ??t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

The minority yields to the majority!

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