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失敗を恐れず「細心にして大胆なれ」（渋澤 健の資本主義と道徳）
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- 細部へのこだわりは、明らかに日本人の長所です。世界に誇る日本の高品質な製品は、このこだわりの産物でしょう。また、細部へこだわることは、日本文化や美意識の神髄の1つでもあります。ただ、細部に神経質になりすぎると、「木を見て森を見ず」どころか、木の葉しか見えていないことになりかねません。おおらかさや大胆さも、発展のためには大切な要素です。 My father was a banker. While I was still in school, he would often share with me, with a touch of pride and nostalgia, his stories as a young banker. When his bank branch offices closed the shutters for the day, all the bankers and staff would gather to count the cash to check the day’s balance. If that balance was off by as little as 1 yen, the entire branch would stay, and recount the money to reconcile the difference. I thought the last thing that I wanted to be when I grew up was a banker. After growing up in the US, I returned Japan. As a part-time job, I taught conversational English to a couple of university students. After the English session, we would drink beer and chat (in Japanese), and their father would occasionally join. He was a banker. With a red happy face, he would ask me, “Do you know what kind of people gets promoted to the top at a Japanese bank?” I thought, well, probably making lots of new loans and being profitable. His answer took me by surprise. “Those guys that managed not to make any mistakes,” he said. I stared back at him with a blank expression. I did not know what to make of his answer. I was still fresh out of school from the US. I did not know a lot of things, but one thing I definitely knew. I did not want to be a banker. 従来の仕事を保守するだけではダメ 銀行での仕事に魅力を感じていなかった私ですが、数年後、気づいていたら金融業界で働いていました。
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