Kim Young-ha Quotes

For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building's front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.

I've had something sort of like angel cards where you pull out an angel card that turns out, like, grandmother was watching over me. And I believe, in some way, I haven't been brave enough to engage with tarot cards mostly because they always end on a bad note. I'm sure if I understood tarot cards more I wouldn't be as fearful.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

I believe in numbers and signs.

Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'

Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.