Soichiro Honda

Background
A japanese businessman who was born in November 17th, 1906 in the town of Komyo, Japan. He was the first son of blacksmith Gihei Honda and his wife Mika. In 1922 he graduated from the Futamata Senior Elementary School. Honda had little tolerance for formal education and jumped at every opportunity he had to work with his true love: motors. Throughout his life Honda never forgot the impression that was made on him when he sighted his first automobile.[1]

Start of an empire
“I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run.”[6]
Soichiro Honda, a Japanese autophile has loved cars since a very young age and from there, his passion just grew. At the tender age of fifteen, he started working as an auto repair technician, dreaming of becoming a famous motor racer. When he had free time, he would build race cars and work on his Harley Davidson.
The talent of this entrepreneur was natural and this allowed him to start his own vehicle repair shop in the year 1928. He attended technical school to add new skills to his inborn knowledge. It was also in 1928 that he secured a patent on wheel spokes for automobiles. This was the first of many innovations.[2] Honda's business thrived during World War II, and after the war he tried to enter the personal motor business, a difficult task since the industry was virtually nonexistent. Encouraged by his early success, in 1948 he organized the Honda Motor Company. Within a decade Honda was the leading motorcycle manufacturer in the world and had a larger share of the American motorcycle market than Toyota and Nissan (with its Datsun cars) had in automobiles.

Way of management
Honda had a different way of managing his business than the normal japanese business