要するに何か代償を出さないといけない
明日、娘の中学校で1時間ほど『生き方あり方を考える(自らの未来を切り開くために)』というテーマでお話しさせていただく機会をいただいた。
色々と自分の書いたことや思ったことなどを再度まとめ終わったときに、ふと松下さんの本に再度目を通したら、自分がいいたいことをすべて簡潔におっしゃっておられた。
「社長というのは、どこの会社でも一番心配しているわけや。晩のご飯もね、もう胸に詰まって、食べても食べられない。かなわんなと思うことが社長の役割や。要するに何か代償を出さないといけない。相撲取りでも、勝負はわずか30秒。しかし、それだけの勝負をするのに、陰でどれほどけいこしているかわからない。悩みというものがある人には生きがいがある。悩む生きがいがあるわけや。何もかも都合よくいって、いいことずくめであったら、生きがいがなくなってしまう。だから自分で生きがいをつくらないといけないわけやな。個々に悩みがあるのは結構なことや。むしろ、多少の苦労がないとさびしいな。これが自分の生きがいだと感じられない人は辛抱できないな。」(松下幸之助)
この言葉からの「好況よし、不況もまたよし」やっぱり松下幸之助さんは、本当にすごい。
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Tomorrow I have the opportunity to speak for about an hour at my daughter’s junior high school on the subject of ‘Thinking about How to Live (to Create Your Own Future)’.
When I finished summarising what I had written and what I thought, I looked at Matsushita-san’s book again and found that he had already said everything I wanted to say in a concise way.
The president is the most anxious person in any company. Even at dinner I cannot eat because my chest is so full. The role of the boss is to fight more than anyone else. In other words, you have to pay the price. Even in sumo wrestling, the match lasts only 30 seconds. But you don’t know how much training goes on behind the scenes to win such a long match. People with worries have a purpose in life. Worry has a purpose in life. If everything was comfortable and smooth, life would have no purpose. So you have to create your own purpose in life. It is good to have individual worries. In fact, it would be lonely if there were no difficulties. If you cannot see this as the purpose of life, you cannot persevere. (Konosuke Matsushita)
Konosuke Matsushita’s words from the above quote, “Good times are good, of course, but bad times are good too”, are really great.
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