Tan Kah Kee's life was a microcosm of the overseas Chinese experience over the past century, and Singapore was able to offer someone like Tan the opportunity, geography, and community to become great both as a businessman and as a man.
陳嘉庚的一生，是近代華僑百年史的縮影，而新加坡則具有成就陳嘉庚偉人事業與品格的天時、地利、人和。