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

Sundar Pichai - It is always good to work with people who make you feel insecure about yourself. It helps you push your boundaries.

Sundar Pichai - It is always good to work with people who make you feel insecure about yourself. It helps you push your boundaries.
Sundar Pichai

"It is always good to work with people who make you feel insecure about yourself. It helps you push your boundaries." - Sundar Pichai.

"์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ข‹๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋„“ํžˆ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค." - ์ˆœ๋‹ค๋ฅด ํ”ผ์ฐจ์ด.



Sundar Pichai - It is Always Good to Work with People Who Make You Feel Insecure About Yourself. It Helps You Push Your Boundaries.


Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet Inc., one of the world's most influential technology leaders. Born in 1972 in Chennai, India, he joined Google in 2004 and rose through various leadership positions before becoming CEO in 2015. Under his leadership, Pichai has guided Google through transformative periods, overseeing critical products including Chrome, Android, and AI initiatives. Known for his collaborative leadership style and technical acumen, Pichai is respected for fostering innovation and building strong teams. His appointment as Alphabet CEO in 2019 reflected his ability to navigate complex organizational challenges and strategic decisions. Through his career, Pichai has demonstrated commitment to continuous learning, diversity, and surrounding himself with talented individuals who challenge conventional thinking.

์ˆœ๋‹ค๋ฅด ํ”ผ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฆฌ๋” ์ค‘ ํ•œ ๋ช…์ธ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€๊ณผ ์•ŒํŒŒ๋ฒณ ์ฃผ์‹ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ CEO์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1972๋…„ ์ธ๋„ ์ฒธ๋‚˜์ด์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๊ทธ๋Š” 2004๋…„ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์— ์ž…์‚ฌํ–ˆ๊ณ  2015๋…„ CEO๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ์ง์ฑ…์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ์•„๋ž˜ ํ”ผ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ํฌ๋กฌ, ์•ˆ๋“œ๋กœ์ด๋“œ, AI ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐ์‹œํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์„ ๋ณ€ํ˜์  ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜‘์—… ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ํ”ผ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์กฐ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํŒ€์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์กด๊ฒฝ๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2019๋…„ ์•ŒํŒŒ๋ฒณ CEO๋กœ์˜ ์ž„๋ช…์€ ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์กฐ์ง ๊ณผ์ œ์™€ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ํ—ค์ณ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํ”ผ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ์ง€์†์  ํ•™์Šต, ๋‹ค์–‘์„ฑ, ๊ด€๋ก€์  ์‚ฌ๊ณ ์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ์žฌ๋Šฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ๋“ค๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ธ๋Š” ํ—Œ์‹ ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Sundar Pichai


The Value of Challenging Colleagues

"It is always good to work with people who make you feel insecure about yourself. It helps you push your boundaries" articulates a counterintuitive approach to team building and personal growth. Most individuals instinctively seek comfortable environments where they feel competent and confident. Pichai's insight challenges this tendency, arguing that genuine development requires surrounding yourself with individuals who possess greater expertise, different perspectives, or superior capabilities. When colleagues excel in areas where you're weak, they reveal gaps in your knowledge and skills. This discomfort—rather than something to avoid—becomes a catalyst for growth. The insecurity signals opportunity: areas demanding development, skills requiring acquisition, and boundaries ready for expansion. Pichai recognizes that high-performing teams aren't built from homogeneity but from diversity of talent where members continually challenge and elevate each other.

"์ž์‹ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์„ ๋А๋ผ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฐ€์–ด๋ถ™์ด๋„๋ก ๋„์™€์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๋Š” ํŒ€ ๋นŒ๋”ฉ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ญ์ง๊ด€์  ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ๋“ค์€ ์ž์‹ ์ด ์œ ๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๋ผ๋Š” ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ณธ๋Šฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”ผ์ฐจ์ด์˜ ํ†ต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ์€ ์ด ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์ „์ด ๋” ํฐ ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ด€์ , ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ฐœ์ธ๋“ค๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ธ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค์ด ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ์•ฝํ•œ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ํƒ์›”ํ•  ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์ง€์‹๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๊ฐ„๊ทน์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ—ํ”ผํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ—์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ์ด‰๋งค์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์‹ ํ˜ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์˜์—ญ, ์Šต๋“์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ , ํ™•์žฅํ•  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”ผ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํŒ€์ด ๋™์งˆ์„ฑ์—์„œ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์›๋“ค์ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋„์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์žฌ๋Šฅ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘์„ฑ์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Sundar Pichai


Creating Growth-Oriented Team Dynamics

Pichai's leadership at Google exemplifies this philosophy through deliberate team composition and organizational culture. He actively seeks diverse talent from varied backgrounds and disciplines, recognizing that cognitive diversity drives innovation. Teams composed of individuals with complementary strengths and differing expertise create psychological tension that propels problem-solving. When engineers work alongside designers, artists alongside scientists, and experienced practitioners alongside emerging talent, the resulting friction generates creative breakthroughs. Pichai has fostered environments where challenging assumptions and questioning approaches is encouraged rather than discouraged. This creates psychological safety for healthy conflict while maintaining respect and collaborative focus. His approach reveals that insecurity from capability gaps needn't damage confidence—rather, it can strengthen teams by creating mutual accountability and elevating collective performance. Google's sustained innovation demonstrates that organizations thrive when individuals embrace discomfort as opportunity.

ํ”ผ์ฐจ์ด์˜ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์—์„œ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์€ ์˜๋„์ ์ธ ํŒ€ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด ์ฒ ํ•™์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ํ•™๋ฌธ์˜ ์žฌ๋Šฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ๋“ค์„ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ธ์ง€์  ๋‹ค์–‘์„ฑ์ด ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒํ˜ธ ๋ณด์™„์  ๊ฐ•์ ๊ณผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ฐœ์ธ๋“ค๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ ํŒ€๋“ค์€ ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ๊ธด์žฅ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋“ค์ด ๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ๊ณผํ•™์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์‹ค๋ฌด์ž๋“ค์ด ์‹ ํฅ ์žฌ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•  ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์  ๋งˆ์ฐฐ์€ ์ฐฝ์˜์  ๋ŒํŒŒ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์„ฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”ผ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ •์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚™๋‹ดํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฉ๋ ค๋˜๋Š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์กฐ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์  ์•ˆ์ „์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ์กด๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ํ˜‘์—… ์ดˆ์ ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ„๊ทน์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์ด ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ์†์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค—์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ์ƒํ˜ธ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์ง‘๋‹จ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ ค ํŒ€์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํ˜์‹ ์€ ๊ฐœ์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์„ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•  ๋•Œ ์กฐ์ง๋“ค์ด ๋ฒˆ์„ฑํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Sundar Pichai


Embracing Growth Through Strategic Collaboration

Deliberately seek collaborators who possess expertise you lack or capabilities that exceed your own. View capability gaps not as threats but as learning opportunities. Cultivate humility by surrounding yourself with people smarter or more skilled than you in specific areas. Create team environments where challenging ideas is welcomed and diverse perspectives are valued. Practice receiving feedback from talented colleagues without defensiveness. Recognize that discomfort signals proximity to growth and expansion. Build organizational cultures celebrating continuous learning and mutual development. Understand that insecurity from working with exceptional people drives improvement more effectively than comfortable competence. Invest in understanding how colleagues excel, extracting lessons applicable to your development. By embracing the productive discomfort of working alongside superior talent, you accelerate personal growth, strengthen teams, and create organizations capable of sustained innovation and extraordinary achievement.

์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์ „๋ฌธ์„ฑ์ด๋‚˜ ๋‹น์‹  ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ž๋“ค์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ๊ฐ„๊ทน์„ ์œ„ํ˜‘์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ํ•™์Šต ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ํŠน์ • ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ๋‹น์‹ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋˜‘๋˜‘ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋” ๋Šฅํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ธ์„œ ๊ฒธ์†์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฅด์„ธ์š”. ์•„์ด๋””์–ด์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ™˜์˜๋˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ด€์ ์ด ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์ง€๋Š” ํŒ€ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ์„ธ์š”. ์žฌ๋Šฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฐฑ์„ ๋ฐฉ์–ด์„ฑ ์—†์ด ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์—ฐ์Šตํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์ด ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ™•์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทผ์ ‘์„ฑ์„ ์‹ ํ˜ธํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ง€์†์  ํ•™์Šต๊ณผ ์ƒํ˜ธ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•จ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์ด ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ๋™๋ฃŒ๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํƒ์›”ํ•œ์ง€ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์— ์ ์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ์ถ”์ถœํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์žฌ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ์‚ฐ์  ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์„ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ฐœ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ , ํŒ€์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํ˜์‹ ๊ณผ ๋น„๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์„ฑ์ทจ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์กฐ์ง์„ ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


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