Persevere

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.