“To any one of us here, $1 million is a lot of money. So where do you want to get your ministers from? From people who earn only $500,000 a year, whose capacity is $500,000 a year? So (when) I look for ministers, anybody who wants to be paid more than half a million, I won’t take him. You are going to end up with very very mediocre people, who can’t even earn a million dollars outside to be our minister - ESM Goh Chok Tong in 2018. Goh Jin Hian must have taken his father's remarks to heart and didn't want to be considered "mediocre" so he tried to earn at least $1 million per year by hook or crook.