48, turning 49, after this Tet I will be 50. I feel so old! I have received so many wishes, from the bottom of my heart I would like to thank everyone. Talking about the birthday wishes I received this year, I noticed that the phrase “success” is used the most. Success, more success?!
Success is a vague concept. The lesson about success that the little 10th grade student Ha Minh Ngoc taught many of us adults is what is the “essence of success”.
18 years ago when I started to deploy the first Secoin brick factory in Van Dien (Hanoi), the Secoin leadership at that time “indulged” me and did not hope for the Production sector because Secoin’s long-term orientation at that time was Service. After nearly 20 years, products made by Secoin are present not only throughout Vietnam but also in nearly 50 countries. Many people say Secoin is successful. No, if we consider scale and revenue, after so many years it is not certain to be successful compared to Secoin following the Service path.
A steel import company only needs to import a few ships of steel to sell and have a turnover of thousands of billions. A wine company only needs to sell a few containers of wine to have a turnover of tens of millions of USD. Compared to hundreds of Secoin workers who produce day and night, it only reaches a few hundred billion each year. I look at it from a different perspective. The added value of thousands of billions of imported steel or tens of millions of USD of wine brought back to this country is very small. A Secoin brick sold abroad for a small 1 USD but it brings 100% of its full value to this country, to Secoin, to Secoin workers and their families and of course, to me and my family.
Secoin is successful in the true value it brings.
As Albert Einstein said, you should become a valuable person rather than a successful person.
No need to be noble, just be valuable to your loved ones, valuable to your colleagues and workers, valuable to your friends, that’s good enough!
At the age of 50, I realized that I was on the way to becoming a valuable person!
Sai Gon, 4/11/2014
DHK
