206 Quotes by Kevin Kwan

If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.

I'm naturally a shy, quiet person.

Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.

I grew up in a household where there were really, really strong matriarchal characters. I think that's true of many Asian households. People tend to think of Asia as a misogynistic society or a society where men rule. At least in my experience, the women rule the household; the women rule the social scene. The men often become very useless.

I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.

Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money.

Even if they're not Asian or super rich... everyone has a nagging mother. Everyone has that obnoxious uncle, or that cousin who's a bit too snobby.