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hifiguy

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13. Years ago I read that Akio Morita, the founder of Sony,

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Wed Dec 5, 2012, 02:13 PM

Dec 2012

never took a salary of more than about $100,000 per year and lived in a modest apartment in Tokyo. Yeah, this was back in the 1970s, but Morita was quoted as saying that it would be "inappropriate" and unseemly to take more money.

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