Thursday, October 2, 2008

FROM BOY SLAVE TO RICHES – Last Part


My education in financial matters continued with Martin Weiss' Money and markets. His insights have helped me run our business prudently and without ever greedily over-extending ourselves. Now, at age 74, my wife and I live very comfortably in a beautiful home on the Central Coast - quite a step up from WW II Japanese concentration-camp barracks!

Since there is quite a bit of interest in our unusual story which could well be entitled "From Boy Slave to successful businessman") my wife and = wrote a book:
WWII... as Seen Through “ Kids' Eyes." With December 7 coming up soon, there should be quite a bit of interest in the fight for dominance of the “Pacific owl,” and the human consequences - the “Silent Holocaust” - experienced by the populations of the Pacific islands. Over 200,000 people, women and children included, died a terrible death.

As to my business philosophy?
1. Enjoy and be thankful for your work (even if it's gas station attendant).
2. Always find ways to improve ourself.
3. Treat others honestly; never take advantage.
4. The best deals you will ever make are "win-win" deals.

The
WW II story which is explained in the book of World War II is mostly filled with lot of suffering aspects, but we should take it as inspiring ones. The Japanese death camps in Ambarawa were horrible. The death camp slaves suffered a lot in the Indonesian death camps. This WWII story is explained through a kid’s viewWWII by Mr. Ralph Brink.

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