I make sure that reading 1,000 books will teach me the future and the principle of the world. I have many masters and best friends in the reading world. Some of them still live, and others live in heaven. Some of them live in Japan, and ot…

A consultant says:”I find that it is always a president of a company, who read most books among board of directors.” Warren Edward Buffett, who is NO.1 investor in the world, reads six hours a day. Korekawa Ginzo, who was one of the most e…

“Reading 1,000 books a year” means 84 books a month. It means three books a day. But there are several days when I can’t read any books because of my business. So I try to read more than four books a day. I would like to read one book with…

I can’t read fiction, science, and a book with small letters. I like to read books about economics, management, history, language, geography, diplomacy, military, travel, health, religion, and so on.

Ohkawa Ryuho is a founder of a religious group. Though he is three years younger than I, he has already published more than 400 books. I thought:“As he can get much inspiration, he must be able to write such a lot of books.” But I heard th…

After the Great Hanshin Earthquake, I decided to read 50 books a month. I thought:”As we always have the possibility of sudden death, I will read books as many as I can while living.” Reading 50 books, I found that I could read 10 more boo…

When I was a high school boy, I read about 10 books a month. When I was a university student, it became 15. After graduation, I read 20. Several years later, I read 30 books.

So I also started to write a list of the books which I read. The list has titles of the books, the authors, the publishers and the price of each book. And I write the evaluation of the book. I give rankings according to a six grade evaluat…

My reading life started after my success in the entrance examination to high school. I thought: “I am released from the entrance examination. So I will try to read as many books as possible from now on.” Yoshida Shouin was one of the activ…