I Am Not the Supreme God

Inamori on the Shenghe School in Dalian, China

There is a "success equation" in Inamori's philosophy, which is "the result of life and work = way of thinking × enthusiasm × ability".

Human "ability" is only one element, and it needs to be multiplied (not added) with "thinking mode" and "enthusiasm" to get the final result. In other words, acquired efforts can greatly open up and change life, which is consistent with Inamori's six diligence "efforts no less than anyone's efforts."

If you have a negative way of thinking, even if you have the ability and enthusiasm, the result will become negative. The so-called "negative way of thinking", to put it another way, is "evil thoughts." For Kazuo Inamori, "thinking without evil" is the fundamental guiding principle of life. I succeeded because of the power of philosophy

In the 88 years of Kazuo Inamori's life, there have been many outstanding successes beyond imagination. For example, Kyocera, founded in 1959, became a Fortune 500 company in 1969; Second Diandian, founded in 1984, became a Fortune 500 company in 2007; in 2010, it successfully rebuilt JAL.

Lang Xianping once said: "Inamori Kazuo not only founded and led two companies into the world's top 500, but also taught his management and life philosophy to many small and medium-sized enterprises and thousands of individuals. He not only created economic value, but also Creating universal value is a global entrepreneur that I admire very much."

In terms of Mr. Inamori's remarkable success, even if he only owns it once, he can go down in history. But Kazuo Inamori has been able to keep such success in his pocket. What is the special mystery in it?

In 2019, at the 27th Moriwajuku World Congress held in Yokohama, Japan, Mr. Kazuo Inamori said: "I think this success is definitely not because of luck, nor is it catching up with the trend of the times. The reason why I This success is due to the power of philosophy. I am convinced of this."

So, how did Kazuo Inamori rely on the power of philosophy step by step to cultivate his own way of thinking and achieve success?

Inamori, who gave a speech at the Kyoto Award ceremony, began to think about the impact of his mentality on life

Mr. Kazuo Inamori said: "When I was young, I was a young man who can be seen everywhere in the streets of Japan. There is nothing conspicuous."

In 1932, Kazuo Inamori was born in the expectation of his father Roichi and his mother Kimi. As the second son at the time, his father Ranshi was too busy at work and was delayed in going to the household registration. In his dedication to his work, Kazuo Inamori really resembles his father Rōshi.

Kazuo Inamori’s childhood was the same as that of other children, fun and joyful. It's just that when I was in school, I became a "cry for three hours". For a time, my family was worried. For a long time, Kazuo Inamori was cowardly, clingy and crying at home. In this situation, with the achievements of Kagoshima township middle school education and the Spartan-style education of his mother, Kazuo Inamori, who was promoted to the upper grades, became stronger and stronger.

Even so, destiny still did not particularly favor this ordinary young man. In 1944, Kazuo Inamori applied for the No. 1 High School but was not admitted. To make matters worse, at the end of that year, Kazuo Inamori was infected by his uncle Kaneo and contracted tuberculosis.

As a 12-year-old child, after conscious of "death" early, the experience of this illness also made him think about the impact of his mentality on his life. His father Rangshi knew that he might be infected, but he still took care of his younger brother without hesitation. What a beautiful heart this is. Faced with a willingness to sacrifice and dedication, the **** of death has to take a detour.

Although Kazuo Inamori was still a child, he woke up at this moment. This is the mentality that Kazuo Inamori learned from a book "The Reality of Life" sent to him by the hostess of the neighbor's house.

In 1945, a year after Kazuo Inamori failed the last entrance exam, Kazuo Inamori took the exam for the first high school while he was ill. As a result, he still failed. Fortunately, after learning that Kazuo Inamori had not passed the first high school, Mr. Doi persuaded Kazuo Inamori to apply for Luchu.

This time, Kazuo Inamori was admitted. For the students at that time, the educational background of the old secondary school or above, and the educational background of elementary school graduates, the future life path will be very different. Mr. Bei Kangli said in "The Life Philosophy of Inamori Kazuo": "Although his life seems to be bumpy, every time at the crossroads of fate, he always meets the right person."

Inamori at the Tokiwa dormitory in Matsukazeen began to realize how to use people

When he was in the third grade at Kagoshima Junior High School, his father, Hoichi, opposed Inamori’s high school because of family embarrassment. Later, with his guarantee that "I will go to work as soon as I graduate from high school," Kazuo Inamori was able to continue to high school.

Because the content of high school teaching is almost the same as that of junior high school, students feel the same whether they attend class or not. Therefore, Kazuo Inamori became obsessed with baseball every day after school. Ji Mei, who couldn't see the past, began to speak for Kazuo Inamori to take on some family responsibilities.

As a result, Kazuo Inamori began to sell paper bags around after school, and then began to "wholesale", and achieved great success, and this became the starting point of Kazuo Inamori's career.

Even at that time, Kazuo Inamori hired a child who had just graduated from elementary school. It was at that time that Kazuo Inamori began to have the consciousness of "employing people". He said: "From that period, I started to realize how to use people ignorantly."

When he graduated from high school, Kazuo Inamori had actually made plans to give up college. His head teacher, Mr. Xindao, thought that Kazuo Inamori had excellent grades and persuaded his father Houshi. However, the city proposed a condition: at least to attend Kyushu University.

Unsurprisingly, Kazuo Inamori was still not admitted this time. Fortunately, Kagoshima Inamori was successfully admitted to the engineering department of Kagoshima Prefectural University, the second batch of admissions. This time, his father Roshi did not oppose Inamori's entry into university.

After entering the university, Kazuo Inamori worked very hard. Even in the cold winter, he still wears sportswear and clogs to study in the library, hoping to realize his life dream when choosing a career after graduation.

Days continue like this day by day. Kazuo Inamori enjoys his free youth, full of longing and hope for the future. However, he soon understood the cruel reality of reality—want to work hard but have nowhere to find a job.

Professor Takeshita extended a helping hand to Kazuo Inamori, and would like to recommend Kazuo Inamori to work at Matsukaze Industry, an insulating porcelain bottle company in Jingdong.

However, Matsukaze Industry hoped to recruit students majoring in inorganic chemistry, preferably those who have studied ceramic technology. If you want to enter Matsukaze Industry, Kazuo Inamori's graduation thesis must be related to ceramics. At that time, there was only about half a year of preparation time before the graduation thesis defense. As Kazuo Inamori had never been exposed to inorganic chemistry, he had to learn from scratch. This was a very severe test for Kazuo Inamori.

Fortunately, after all the hardships, Kazuo Inamori finally completed his graduation thesis titled "Basic Research on Irene Clay" and successfully joined Matsukaze Industry.

Inamori, who is leaving for a business trip abroad, works at the center of the whirlpool

When Kazuo Inamori entered Matsukaze Industry, this well-known company was already on the verge of faltering and lost its former glory.

In a depressing environment, Kazuo Inamori repeats monotonous and boring work every day. The internal situation of Matsukaze Industry is indeed beyond imagination, and late payment and partial payment of wages have become the norm. Before long, five college students who joined the company at the same time as Inamori offered to resign. In the end, only Kazuo Inamori was left.

Originally, Mr. Kazuo Inamori also had to leave, but his brother Rize was firmly opposed to sending him a copy of his household registration, which caused him no retreat. In this case, Kazuo Inamori made up his mind instead: "There is no other way but to change the mentality, go all out and focus on the R&D work in front of him."

Once, Kazuo Inamori saw a senior sitting in the raw material cleaning room, working hard to clean the ball mill with a brush. Occasionally, the grinding ball will be a little worn, and the worn unevenness will be stained with some powder left by the previous experiment. The senior carefully scraped out the powder with a spatula, and then cleaned the grinding ball with a brush.

"A man who graduated from college is actually doing such trivial work..." Kazuo Inamori thought while watching casually. Later, when the desired result was not obtained in the experiment, the figure of the senior appeared in his mind.

The back view of the senior tells Kazuo Inamori the importance of on-site practice. "Experience is much more important than knowledge", this attitude became an important one in Inamori's "philosophy" that he always followed.

It is this attitude that prompted Kazuo Inamori to successfully synthesize practical grade forsterite ceramic materials at the age of 24, which was the first time in Japan.

Later, Kazuo Inamori worked all night on how to improve the precision of products as quickly as possible. At this time, he realized that he wanted to become the "center of the whirlpool." Inamori Kazuo said: "You have to actively and actively seek and undertake jobs, so that people around you will naturally assist you. You can work in the center of the whirlpool."

That's what Kazuo Inamori asked of himself. In November 1956, Kazuo Inamori and others established the Special Magnetics Division. Although Kazuo Inamori did not become the section chief, he became a young leader in charge of the special magnetics division.

With colleagues from Matsukaze Industry (Inamori on the right), aiming to be No. 1 in the world

Kazuo Inamori became the "center of the whirlpool," constantly coping with challenges and beginning to accept very important tasks. However, the newly appointed Minister of Technology blindly wanted to seize his own research and development rights, which was unacceptable to Inamori.

In particular, when the new Minister of Technology said: "It seems that you are not good. Our company has many technicians who graduated from Kyoto University. Let them do it."

It was this fuse that made Inamori Kazuo decide to resign. After going through some twists and turns from resignation to the idea of ​​starting a business, Aoyama introduced Kazuo Inamori to Ichie Nishie, the managing director of Miyagi Electric Works. In the end, the burning passion and unwavering faith of Kazuo Inamori finally moved Nishie and them.

On April 1, 1959, a commemorative ceremony for the establishment of the company was held in the office on the second floor of the rented office building at No. 1112, Nishinokyoharacho, Nakakyo District, Kyoto City. At the celebration banquet that night, Kazuo Inamori made a speech: "We must become the number one in Japan, and then the number one in the world!"

Strong desires began to drive reality. It was at this stage that Kazuo Inamori gradually perfected the core of the corporate culture: "employee firstism", customer-oriented as the goal, pricing is management, and the pursuit of the material and spirit of all employees In terms of happiness, "altruistic" heart, amoeba management.

On October 1, 1971, Kyocera successfully listed on the second section of the Osaka Stock Exchange and the Kyoto Stock Exchange. The capital at the time was 560 million yen. This year was the 13th year that Kyocera was founded, and it also happened to be the fifth year that Kazuo Inamori became president.

Inamori (Director and Head of Technology Department) at the start of the business listened to the voice of the market with a "pure heart"

When Kazuo Inamori visited the San Diego factory before, he was surprised to learn that the telephone bill in the United States was only one-ninth of that in Japan.

At that time, Japan's telecommunications business was monopolized by the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (Denden Corporation), which was fully funded by the Japanese government. Because of the monopoly, the user fee remains high, which has caused a great burden on the national economy.

At that time, Kazuo Inamori had deeply realized that the key to successful career lies in whether he can listen to the voice of the market with a "pure heart" and do the right thing with a selfless attitude.

After thinking about it for about half a year, Kazuo Inamori made a decision. In July 1983, Kyocera convened an interim board of directors, and the challenge to D2D was raised as an issue.

"Kyocera has accumulated 150 billion yen in internal funds since its establishment, and I hope to use 100 billion of it." Kazuo Inamori made a final decision and decided to enter the telecommunications industry.

Fortunately, Kazuo Inamori met Chimoto, the head of the Technical Investigation Department of the Kinki Electric and Communication Bureau of the former Denden Corporation, and the subsequent success of the Second Denden was inseparable from this person. The future of the telecommunications business that Senbon describes sees huge possibilities.

After the establishment of the new company, it faced the problem of not being able to lay communication lines. If this problem cannot be resolved, the plan will fail. Fortunately, at this time, President Mato of the Diandian Corporation directly gave the green light for the second Diandian to use the line.

In this process, Kazuo Inamori listened to the voice of the market and promoted the positive development of the Japanese communications industry. In 2007, KDDI became a Fortune 500 company in the world.

The calligraphy work "Respect the Heaven and Love the Human" presented by President Miyagi What is correct as a human being

On February 1, 2010, 78-year-old Kazuo Inamori arrived at JAL.

The challenge of rebuilding JAL is very serious, and Kazuo Inamori is no longer young, and he is even mentally prepared to face it.

However, in April 2010, just two months after Kazuo Inamori arrived, the shocking book "The Lie of JAL Reconstruction" was released. The author is Yayama Taro. He is well-known for his great insights in pushing forward the dismantling and privatization of the National Railway in the second temporary tune. Kazuo Inamori valued this point and invited him to be a committee member for the third review. But it was him who had launched a fierce criticism of JAL's reconstruction.

The description of the facts in this book is almost completely correct, and it has a lot of foresight. However, "thoughts" and "thinking ways" are different.

The difference between Kazuo Inamori and Taro Yayama is that he has the employees of JAL in his mind. On the other hand, Yayama Taro also underestimated Inamori's business strength.

In the process of rebuilding JAL, Kazuo Inamori did not adopt the posture of the so-called "elite". Instead, he conducted dialogues with the focus on "what is right as a human being" to judge things and "implement on-site doctrine." The spirit of JAL philosophy such as "judgment and action with a sense of urgency".

In the end, JAL achieved a miraculous V-shaped response. In November 2010, JAL’s profit had reached 140 billion yen.

JAL Chairman Meeting

Inamori's success was a very simple matter in his own eyes. Regarding "what is right as a human being" as the first criterion of judgment, with "altruism" in mind, and living "extremely serious" wholeheartedly, the result will naturally be successful.

It is this kind of original intention, the belief that the "altruistic" heart will last forever, without even a trace of evil thoughts, which made Inamori Kazuo.

With the right way of thinking and working hard continuously, you can also reap an abundance of life. As Mr. Kagoo Inamori said: "Live your life with all your strength, and your dream will surely come true!" Kagoshima Inamori was born in 1932 in Kagoshima, Japan. In 1959, 27-year-old Kazuo Inamori founded Kyoto Ceramics Co., Ltd. (Kyocera). In 1969, Kyocera became a Fortune 500 company in the world. In 1984, 52-year-old Kazuo Inamori founded KDDI Corporation (KDDI). In 2007, KDDI became a Fortune 500 company in the world. On February 1, 2010, 78-year-old Kazuo Inamori became the chairman of the bankrupt and rebuilt Japan Airlines. In November 2010, JAL’s profit reached 140 billion yen. Authors of "Living Method", "Dry Method", "Heart Method", "Amoeba Management", "Six Diligence" and so on.

Author: Zhou Yafei, a 6-year publisher who reads 100 books a year, has planned works such as "Think Well" and "Expression", and has nearly 300,000 fans on the entire network. WeChat public account @图书控 (ID: dushukong).