5 Quotes & Sayings By Shinmon Aoki

Shinmon Aoki is the founder of Aoki Professional Co., Ltd. His career began in the field of electronic components, which has developed over the past twenty years. Today, his company has developed into one of Japan's largest manufacturers. His business philosophy is based on "we can do more with less" and "creating value through technology." Shinmon Aoki is the author of five books on management including "The One Minute Manager," "The One Minute Salesman," "The One Minute Man," and "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" Read more

He also wrote two best-selling books for children on entrepreneurship, "Start Your Own Business" and "Start Your Own Business for Dummies."

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In fact, no form of death places a greater burden on society than suicide, for the act of suicide is the way a person seeks to resolve his alienation from a cooperative society. Shinmon Aoki
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When you die, you want to die a beautiful death. But what makes for a beautiful death is not always clear. To die without suffering, to die without causing trouble to others, to die leaving behind a beautiful corpse, to die looking good -- it's not clear what is meant by a beautiful death. Does a beautiful death refer to the way you die or the condition of your corpse after death? This distinction is not clear. And when you start to stretch the image of death to the method of how to dispose of your corpse as befitting your image of death, everything grows completely out of hand. Shinmon Aoki
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A maggot is just another life form. Shinmon Aoki
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Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death. Shinmon Aoki