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Top 20 Deng Xiaoping Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Deng Xiaoping

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2. “Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead – but aim to do something big.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “Cross the river by feeling for stones.”

3. “Cross the river by feeling for stones.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.”

4. “It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “Seek truth from facts.”

5. “Seek truth from facts.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?”

6. “Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.”

7. “Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “When you open window both flies and air come in.”

8. “When you open window both flies and air come in.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it’s a good cat.”

9. “Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it’s a good cat.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “Reform is Chinas second revolution.”

10. “Reform is Chinas second revolution.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn’t enough. We need to raise the quality.”

11. “We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn’t enough. We need to raise the quality.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “Do not debate! is one of my inventions.”

12. “Do not debate! is one of my inventions.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.”

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

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.”

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

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.”

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

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.”

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

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “Let some people get rich first.”

17. “Let some people get rich first.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we’re doing.”

18. “Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we’re doing.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.”

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

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “We no longer know what socialism is, or how to get there, and yet it remains the goal.”

22. “We no longer know what socialism is, or how to get there, and yet it remains the goal.”

— Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Quote: “The minority yields to the majority!”

23. “The minority yields to the majority!”

— Deng Xiaoping

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