In his opening speech to new students, he says: "For every eight hours of work the employees of leading companies put in, we have to put in over sixteen."
他對新生演講時說：「先進公司的工作人員一天工作八小時，我們就要工作十六小時以上」，對一周工作六天半的林挺生而言：「早上八點到校上課，下午五點鐘下課」是學生最起碼的標準，至於「無故缺席」，簡直是不可思議的事。