“If you want to succeed, you have to work hard hard hard. You have to set the base for all the different students coming. If you don't work hard then you are not the model for them.
You must be on top of everything, so that this university will remember you. If you are excellent, the ones coming will try to be excellent not only like you but also better in order to be on top and that will set the base of the university higher and higher. You write that USTH is excellent on the paper, but excellent comes from you. I do a part of it, you do the most of it."