16-01-2017, 12:24 PM
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Kimi Takura : “People should find something they like and do it,” he said. “I’m now a bus nerd. Nerds do what they like and it doesn’t feel like work.”
A High School Dropout Builds a Bus Empire After Selling His Car
by Chris Cooper and Katsuyo Kuwako
January 15, 2017, 11:00 PM GMT+8
Kimi Takura quit his fast-paced job as a deliveryman when he was 22 after he was hospitalized for a month with exhaustion. Out of work, he sold his much-loved Jaguar car, bought a secondhand bus and started a one-man business driving Taiwanese tourists around Japan.
He worked every day he could for the next year, ferrying passengers between Tokyo and Osaka, and to Kyoto and other sightseeing spots, when a travel agent offered to lend him money to buy three more buses. Takura’s business boomed so much he found he needed even more.
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I loved driving,” said Takura, chief executive officer of Heisei Enterprise Inc., who dropped out of high school after his father’s business went bankrupt and worked to earn the money for his own car.
More details in https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ng-his-car
A High School Dropout Builds a Bus Empire After Selling His Car
by Chris Cooper and Katsuyo Kuwako
January 15, 2017, 11:00 PM GMT+8
Kimi Takura quit his fast-paced job as a deliveryman when he was 22 after he was hospitalized for a month with exhaustion. Out of work, he sold his much-loved Jaguar car, bought a secondhand bus and started a one-man business driving Taiwanese tourists around Japan.
He worked every day he could for the next year, ferrying passengers between Tokyo and Osaka, and to Kyoto and other sightseeing spots, when a travel agent offered to lend him money to buy three more buses. Takura’s business boomed so much he found he needed even more.
...
I loved driving,” said Takura, chief executive officer of Heisei Enterprise Inc., who dropped out of high school after his father’s business went bankrupt and worked to earn the money for his own car.
More details in https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ng-his-car
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