Entrepreneurs are considered strange people in Japan. How “strange” are you?
From Boomtown USA
“Entrepreneurs are considered strange people in Japan,” Dr. Takashi Yamamoto, economics professor at Akita International University told the Economic Gardening Gathering in Steamboat Springs. When asked about some of Japan’s more famous entrepreneurs like Akio Morita who co-founded Sony in 1946, Yamamota responded, “Guys like Morita are more respected for the fact that they started and ran what became big companies, rather than because they were entrepreneurial.”
Read more about how one group is aiming to cause entrepreneurial groups to sprout up in the nation that considers it “strange”.
Mike C on June 20th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Behind every successful business person is a lot of failures. They are (strange) or different than most, because they will not give up until they succeed!
Mike C