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David Tang Biography

Sir David Wing-cheung Tang, KBE (Chinese: 鄧永鏘; pinyin: Dèng Yǒngqiāng; Sidney Lau: Dang6Wing5Cheung1; 2 August 1954 – 29 August 2017), was a Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist and socialite. He was best known for founding the Shanghai Tang fashion chain in 1994, which he sold in 1998 to Richemont.

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In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

Cyberspace, Cents, Hearsay, Per, Read

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

I Love Him, Men, Thinking, Master, Think, Tongue

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

Clung, Eventually, Fax Machines, Ipads, Machine, Moving

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

Cash Flow, Negative, Three, Cash, Dreaded, Language

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

People, Mind, Looks, Know, Say

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

Lying, Cyberspace, Opinion, Percent, Misinformed

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

Thinking, Names, World, Timbuktu, Anywhere

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

Believe, Writing, Character, Pinyin, Mao, Learn

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

Character, Emperor, Impulsive, Fry, Characters

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

Chinese, Dialect, Five, Nine, Versatile

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

Challenges, Age, World, Challenge, Personal

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Bears, Relation, Persons, Famous, Image

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

Beauty, Internet, Limits, Space

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Drop, Friend, Ifs, Somebody, Trouble