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The aim of this paper is to examine some common successful factors for creating new business in the beginning era, automobile business of Toyota and electronics business of Samsung. Two businessmen, Kiichiro Toyoda and Byung-Chull Lee are worldwide famous　entrepreneurs. Kiichiro Toyoda（1894~1952）, founder of Toyota Motor, devoted himself to the development of domestic technology in pursuit of mass production of automobiles and built the foundations of the automobile industry in 1930s. Byung-Chull Lee (1910~1987), founder of Samsung, the largest Chaebol in Korea, decided to start electronics business in the late 1960s after the incident of the Hanguk Fertilizer Company. As common successful factors we have to emphasize three aspects such as technological strategy, fund strategy and human resource strategy. Their companies, Toyota Motor and Samsung Electronics, were late started companies. So they had to depend on the technology transferred from advanced foreign companies. Their common aim of business was creating mass production system based on the effective parts supplying system and pursuit of innovation. They had the advantage of being family business. Toyoda family had succeeded in other business, such as developing automatic loom or other machines, and made a fortune. In case of Samsung, Byung-Chull Lee made a big fortune from Cheil Jedang (sugar industry) and Cheil Mojik (wool industry). Highly skilled human resource was the most important problem for them. They had to recruit such manpower from other companies. Finally we have to point out their common philosophy of management, “Economical Contribution to the Nation”. Their philosophy was strongly combined to their entrepreneurial spirit.