My top 10 highlights from the book:
1. I still vividly remember that my parents’ arguments were always about food.
2. There have been times of frustration, and harder times of humiliation and defeat when all I could do was clench my teeth and bear it.
3. Half measures, compromises, cutting corners, or “being realistic” do not exist in my world.
3. Half measures, compromises, cutting corners, or “being realistic” do not exist in my world.
4. Credibility grows like a tree.
5. Time is a form of capital provided equally to everyone.
6. Time is the capital that must be managed most wisely.
7. We did whatever was needed to get the job done.
8. I’ve never come across a company that thrives under a luxury-loving, wasteful owner.
9. If you are diligent for a day, you will sleep comfortably for a night. If you are diligent for a month, the quality of your life will noticeably improve. If you are diligent for a year, two years, 10 years, your whole life—your accomplishments will be recognized by all. The diligent lead lives 100 times more productive than the lazy.
10. Other than thinking about how to develop and grow my business, I’m actually not very interested in anything else.
Chung Ju-yung grew up so poor he had to eat tree bark to survive. He founded Hyundai and became the richest person in Korea. When Chung was in his 80s, he wrote an autobiography that tells the devastating reality of growing up in dire poverty, how he escaped through manual labor, and how he founded and grew one of the world's largest conglomerates. Along the way he shares advice like why you should emulate bedbugs, the importance of going where the money is, and why people called him "The Bulldozer."
9. If you are diligent for a day, you will sleep comfortably for a night. If you are diligent for a month, the quality of your life will noticeably improve. If you are diligent for a year, two years, 10 years, your whole life—your accomplishments will be recognized by all. The diligent lead lives 100 times more productive than the lazy.
10. Other than thinking about how to develop and grow my business, I’m actually not very interested in anything else.
Chung Ju-yung grew up so poor he had to eat tree bark to survive. He founded Hyundai and became the richest person in Korea. When Chung was in his 80s, he wrote an autobiography that tells the devastating reality of growing up in dire poverty, how he escaped through manual labor, and how he founded and grew one of the world's largest conglomerates. Along the way he shares advice like why you should emulate bedbugs, the importance of going where the money is, and why people called him "The Bulldozer."