Only shameless people will become successful people. —— Ren Zheng Fei (President of Huawei)
It is the most shameful thing to insist on mistakes in order to save face. -Wei Wei (editor-in-chief of economic periodicals)
A face is a person's face. China people are very face-saving. Some people even think that face is more important than life. As the saying goes, "Man struggles for breath, while Buddha struggles for fragrance".
Face not only affects people's consumption patterns, but also affects people's social interaction and even determines a person's fate.
There are many face-saving heroes in history. For example, Song Wu in Water Margin is a face-saving person. After reading the notice, Song Wu knew that there was a tiger on the mountain. He wanted to turn around and go back to the hotel, but because he boasted about Haikou with the shopkeeper before going up the mountain, he struggled to go up the mountain because of his face. Song Wu himself never thought that he could kill tigers, and he became famous for it.
There are also many people in China who lost their lives to save face. The most typical one is Xiang Yu who committed suicide by the Wujiang River. After the defeat, he felt "ashamed to see his elders in Jiangdong" and committed suicide. Of course, there are people who don't "love" face, or even "don't care" face.
Yan Jiehe, former chairman of the board of directors of Pacific Construction Group, once said a controversial sentence. He said: What is face? We are never shameless in doing great things. We can tear off our faces, throw them on the ground, kick them a few feet and walk away. He believes that not taking yourself seriously, not treating face as face, and treating face as nothingness, this is the demeanor that a person who really does great things should have.
Although his words are biased and sharp, for enterprises, the biggest problem in the early stage of starting a business is face.