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

Eric Schmidt - If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

Eric Schmidt - If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Eric Schmidt


"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on." - Eric Schmidt.

"๋กœ์ผ“์— ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋ฉด, ์–ด๋–ค ์ž๋ฆฌ์ธ์ง€ ๋ฌป์ง€ ๋งˆ๋ผ. ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ผ๋‹จ ์˜ฌ๋ผํƒ€๋ผ." - ์—๋ฆญ ์Šˆ๋ฏธํŠธ.


Eric Schmidt - If You're Offered a Seat on a Rocket Ship, Don't Ask What Seat!


Eric Schmidt is a prominent business executive and software engineer who served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011. He played a crucial role in transforming Google from a Silicon Valley startup into a global technology giant. Known for his strategic vision, he helped steer the company through its IPO and massive expansion into various industries.


์—๋ฆญ ์Šˆ๋ฏธํŠธ๋Š” 2001๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2011๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ CEO๋ฅผ ์—ญ์ž„ํ•œ ์ €๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—…์ธ์ด์ž ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์„ ์‹ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ˜๋ฐธ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์—์„œ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ IT ๊ฑฐ๋ฌผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ ์ธ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋žต์  ๋น„์ „์œผ๋กœ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ณต๊ฐœ(IPO)์™€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฐ์—…์œผ๋กœ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ™•์žฅ์„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Œ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Eric Schmidt


Seizing Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunities

The quote, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on," is a powerful lesson in career strategy. It suggests that when you encounter a company or project with explosive growth potential—a "rocket ship"—the specific role or title becomes secondary to being part of that journey. Success is often determined more by the trajectory of the organization than by your initial position.


"๋กœ์ผ“์— ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋ฉด, ์–ด๋–ค ์ž๋ฆฌ์ธ์ง€ ๋ฌป์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ์ผ๋‹จ ์˜ฌ๋ผํƒ€์„ธ์š”"๋ผ๋Š” ๋ช…์–ธ์€ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด ์ „๋žต์— ์žˆ์–ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํญ๋ฐœ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋‚˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ, ์ฆ‰ '๋กœ์ผ“'์„ ๋งŒ๋‚ฌ์„ ๋•Œ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์—ญํ• ์ด๋‚˜ ์งํ•จ์€ ๊ทธ ์—ฌ์ •์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ถ€์ฐจ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ๊ณต์€ ์ข…์ข… ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ง์œ„๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ทธ ์กฐ์ง์ด ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ถค์ ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฒฐ์ •๋˜๊ณค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Eric Schmidt


Prioritizing Growth Over Comfort

Many people miss out on great opportunities because they are too focused on titles, salary, or specific responsibilities. Schmidt’s wisdom encourages us to prioritize momentum and high-growth environments. In a fast-moving organization, new roles and opportunities will naturally create themselves. The most important step is simply getting inside the door and positioning yourself where the action is happening.


๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์งํ•จ, ์—ฐ๋ด‰, ํ˜น์€ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ง‘์ฐฉํ•˜๋А๋ผ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋†“์น˜๊ณค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šˆ๋ฏธํŠธ์˜ ์ง€ํ˜œ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์•ˆ์ฃผํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ์ถ”์ง„๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ณ ์„ฑ์žฅ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๋…๋ คํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ์ง์—์„œ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ญํ• ๊ณผ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚˜๊ธฐ ๋งˆ๋ จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋Š” ์ผ๋‹จ ๊ทธ ๋ฌธ ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ณณ์— ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Eric Schmidt


Taking the Leap of Faith

In today’s volatile job market, the ability to recognize and leap onto a "rocket ship" is essential. It requires a mix of intuition and courage to ignore minor details for the sake of a bigger vision. Don't let indecision or ego hold you back when a transformative opportunity presents itself. When the engine is firing and the ship is ready to launch, your only job is to make sure you are on board.


์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์ด ํฐ ๊ตฌ์ง ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ '๋กœ์ผ“'์„ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ  ๋›ฐ์–ด๋“œ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์€ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ํฐ ๋น„์ „์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ์†Œํ•œ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์„ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง๊ด€๊ณผ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณ€ํ™”์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ฐพ์•„์™”์„ ๋•Œ ์šฐ์œ ๋ถ€๋‹จํ•จ์ด๋‚˜ ์ž์กด์‹ฌ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ฃผ์ €ํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ์—”์ง„์ด ์ ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ๋ฐœ์‚ฌ ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚ฌ์„ ๋•Œ, ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์ผ์€ ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์— ํƒ‘์Šนํ•ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



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