My Thinking Is Probably Nothing Like My Seniors'

The world has many magnificent chairmen leading companies worth hundreds of billions — people whose track records dwarf mine. But my way of thinking is probably completely different from those great seniors'.

I was a boy in Shimonoseki who couldn't study; I leapt to Canada with zero English, was saved by friends, climbed up from the bottom through part-time jobs.

I believe time flows from the future, design my company on the five elements, celebrated nothing on listing day, and had every executive write a life essay — nothing from any management textbook. I once saw this as weakness. Now I am certain of the opposite: only different thinking reaches different places. Being different is a talent.

Never erase yours.

What do you work for?