Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who passed away, left a variety of remarks that could be the cornerstone of Samsung's management with his unique, crude and straightforward speech.
In particular, the message like the village homicide that was thrown in a timely manner after diagnosing changes and crises first served as a catalyst for not only Samsung but also our economy and society.
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▲ "We will grow Samsung into a world-class leading company by the 1990s through future-oriented and challenging management."
(December 1, 1987 inaugural address)
▲ "People who will run, run. People who will be busy walk. Do not dry. If you don't want to walk, play. Don't throw out. But don't hold the ankles of others, but stay still. Why are you going forward? Turn it aside?"
(June 1993, Frankfurt meeting)
▲ "Do not take a picture of the attendance department. Get rid of it. All you have to do is to think about it, whether at home or anywhere. You don't have to do it only at the company. You can stay up to work for 6 months and play for 6 months. You shouldn't evaluate it as playing. Play properly even if you play."
(Frankfurt meeting in June 1993)
▲ "In the end, I have to change. To change, I have to change thoroughly. In extreme terms, I have to change everything except my wife and children."
(Meeting in Frankfurt, June 1993)
▲ "Defect is cancer. Samsung is likely to enter the terminal stage of cancer if it goes wrong.", "Samsung Electronics is an organization that has no pickers even if the screw rolls around in the production site, and 30,000 people make it and 6,000 people go to fix it. , A wasteful group, a numb company."
(Meeting in Frankfurt, June 1993)
▲ "From the manager to the manager, organize by 5 o'clock and leave the office. This is an order."
(Instructing the implementation of the July 4 system in 1993)
▲ "Korea's politics are in the fourth class, bureaucrats and administrative organizations are in the third class, and companies are in the second class."
(Meeting with Beijing correspondents in 1995)
▲ "If a jet tries to fly at twice the speed of sound (1 Mach), it is said that only the power of the engine is doubled. From material engineering to basic physics, all materials and materials must be changed to fly at supersonic speed. "
(April 2002 Presidents' Meeting)
▲ "200-300 years ago, 100,000-200,000 people fed the monarchs and royal families, but in the 21st century, an outstanding genius feeds 100,000-200,000 employees" (2002 June Talent Strategy President's Workshop)
▲ "It's not just about raising talent. You have to plant an apple tree."
(Meet with reporters after a meeting with the presidents in May 2003)
▲ "With China chasing and Japan leading, the Korean economy is a sandwich."
(January 2007 FKI President's Meeting)
▲ "When it comes to enhancing the value of Samsung's brand and enriching the lives of mankind, we need to be able to hold hands with anyone, and willingness to cooperate in the areas we lack is necessary."
(New Year
's Address in
January 2011)
▲ "If you don't make good use of the female workforce, it's a loss for the company and the country."
(Lunch for women promoted in 2012)
▲ "Now is a real crisis. Global leading companies are collapsing. Samsung has no idea when and what will happen. In the next 10 years, most of the businesses and products representing Samsung will disappear. We have to start over. There is no time to hesitate."
(Returning to management in March 2010)
▲ "Do not be proud and rearrange with a sense of crisis. We must complete creative management in which challenge and innovation, autonomy and creativity live without fear of failure."
(October 2013, Shin Shin Young's 20th Anniversary Dinner)
▲ "We need to change once again. To take the initiative in change, we must break through the limits of the market and technology."
(New Year's Address in January 2014)
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