Perseverance. Mr. Honda and the obstacles to his success.
Began to develop a piston ring, suffered ridicule form school mates
until Toyota finally gave him a contact but some problems arose, Japan was
gearing up for war and couldn't supply him with the concrete he needed to
build his factory, he didn't quit, he developed another strategy and came
up with a formula to make his own concrete and built the factory, during
the war the factory was bombed twice and destroyed major portions of his
factory, he did not get discouraged, he gathered the gas cans discarded
from the fighters (He called them gifts from president Truman) which
provided him the raw materials he needed that where unavailable at that
time. Finally after surviving all this an earthquake leveled his factory
which forced him to sell his operation to Toyota. He was determined to
succeed, after the war there was a major gas shortage and he couldn't
afford to drive his car, he attached a small motor to his bicycle that cut
his fuel costs 80%, one by one people wanted these bikes until he ran out
of motors, he decided to build a factory to manufacture motors for his new
invention but he didn't have enough capital, he submitted a personal
letter to 18,000 bicycle shops and got enough capital to start the
factory, he continued to make improvements on the "Motorized
Bike" until he crisoned the "SuperCub", this became a huge
success and he earned the Emperors Award, later he exported this invention
to Europe and the USA and followed up with a car in the 70's. Today The
Honda Corporation employs over 100,000 people and is considered one of the
largest car manufacturing Corps in Japan next to Toyota.
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