Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

Mark Zuckerberg - The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Mark Zuckerberg - The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is

Mark Zuckerberg


"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." - Mark Zuckerberg.

"๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์œ„ํ—˜์€ ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ์œ„ํ—˜๋„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋งค์šฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ ์‹คํŒจ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์žฅ๋œ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์ „๋žต์€ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค." - ๋งˆํฌ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ.


Embracing Risk in the Digital Age


Mark Zuckerberg, born in 1984, is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook). Starting Facebook from his Harvard dorm room in 2004 at age 19, Zuckerberg transformed a college networking site into one of the world's most influential technology companies. With a net worth exceeding $100 billion, he has become one of the youngest self-made billionaires in history. Beyond Facebook, Zuckerberg has led Meta's expansion into virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the metaverse, consistently demonstrating his philosophy of calculated risk-taking in technology innovation.


๋งˆํฌ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” 1984๋…„์ƒ์œผ๋กœ, ๋ฉ”ํƒ€(๊ตฌ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ)์˜ ๊ณต๋™ ์ฐฝ์—…์ž์ด์ž CEO๋กœ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ธฐ์—…๊ฐ€์ด์ž ์ž์„ ๊ฐ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2004๋…„ 19์„ธ์˜ ๋‚˜์ด์— ํ•˜๋ฒ„๋“œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌ์—์„œ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํ‚น ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1000์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœ์ž์‚ฐ์œผ๋กœ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ Š์€ ์ž์ˆ˜์„ฑ๊ฐ€ ์–ต๋งŒ์žฅ์ž ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ƒ ํ˜„์‹ค, ์ธ๊ณต ์ง€๋Šฅ, ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋ฒ„์Šค๋กœ์˜ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€์˜ ํ™•์žฅ์„ ์ด๋Œ๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํ˜์‹ ์—์„œ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ๋œ ์œ„ํ—˜ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์„ ์ผ๊ด€๋˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Mark Zuckerberg


The Philosophy Behind Zuckerberg's Quote


"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." This statement encapsulates Zuckerberg's core business philosophy that has driven his career. The quote reflects a fundamental truth about modern entrepreneurship: in rapidly evolving markets, standing still equals falling behind. Zuckerberg recognizes that technological disruption is constant, and companies that fail to innovate and take calculated risks will inevitably become obsolete. This mindset shaped Facebook's aggressive acquisition strategy and continuous product evolution.


"๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์œ„ํ—˜์€ ์–ด๋–ค ์œ„ํ—˜๋„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ, ์‹คํŒจ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์žฅ๋œ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์ „๋žต์€ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค." ์ด ์ง„์ˆ ์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด์˜จ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ฒ ํ•™์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ธ์šฉ๋ฌธ์€ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๊ธฐ์—…๊ฐ€ ์ •์‹ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ง„์‹ค์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ, ๊ฐ€๋งŒํžˆ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋’ค์ฒ˜์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ํŒŒ๊ดด๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ˜์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‚ฐ๋œ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋“ค์€ ํ•„์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์‹์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž„์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ์ธ์ˆ˜ ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ง„ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Mark Zuckerberg


Facebook's Risk-Taking Journey


Zuckerberg's philosophy manifested throughout Facebook's evolution. The decision to drop out of Harvard to pursue Facebook full-time was his first major risk. Subsequently, rejecting early buyout offers from major corporations, including a reported $1 billion offer from Yahoo in 2006, demonstrated his commitment to long-term vision over short-term security. The $1 billion acquisition of Instagram in 2012, considered expensive at the time, proved visionary. The $19 billion WhatsApp purchase and the bold pivot to Meta and the metaverse represent continued risk-taking that defines Zuckerberg's leadership approach.


์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์€ ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ์˜ ์ง„ํ™” ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ถ์„ ์ „์—…์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•˜๋ฒ„๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ค‘ํ‡ดํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์ฃผ์š” ์œ„ํ—˜์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดํ›„, 2006๋…„ ์•ผํ›„์˜ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ธ์ˆ˜ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์  ์•ˆ์ •๋ณด๋‹ค ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ๋น„์ „์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ํ—Œ์‹ ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹œ ๋น„์‹ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์กŒ๋˜ 2012๋…„ ์ธ์Šคํƒ€๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ธ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ง€๋ช…์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Œ์ด ์ฆ๋ช…๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 190์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์™“์ธ ์•ฑ ๊ตฌ๋งค์™€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ๋ฐ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋ฒ„์Šค๋กœ์˜ ๋Œ€๋‹ดํ•œ ์ „ํ™˜์€ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์œ„ํ—˜ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Mark Zuckerberg


Applying Zuckerberg's Risk Philosophy Today


In today's digital economy, Zuckerberg's insight about risk is particularly relevant for entrepreneurs and established businesses alike. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation, proving that companies unwilling to adapt quickly faced extinction. Startups must balance calculated risks with sustainability, while established corporations must overcome institutional inertia to remain competitive. Zuckerberg's philosophy doesn't advocate reckless behavior but rather strategic risk-taking informed by data and vision. His approach demonstrates that in technology and business, the greatest danger lies not in failed experiments but in the failure to experiment at all.


์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์˜ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์—์„œ, ์œ„ํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ์˜ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ์€ ๊ธฐ์—…๊ฐ€์™€ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ธฐ์—… ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ํŠนํžˆ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. COVID-19 ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน์€ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋ณ€ํ˜์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ ์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ๋ฉธ์ข…์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ์Œ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์€ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ๋œ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๋งž์ถฐ์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ œ๋„์  ๊ด€์„ฑ์„ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €์ปค๋ฒ„๊ทธ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์€ ๋ฌด๋ชจํ•œ ํ–‰๋™์„ ์˜นํ˜ธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ๋น„์ „์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์–ป์€ ์ „๋žต์  ์œ„ํ—˜ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ์‹คํŒจํ•œ ์‹คํ—˜์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ „ํ˜€ ์‹คํ—˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



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