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James Yamada Jr. believes that entrepreneurs have an obligation to help the public. Yamada's company donated close to $1 million to charities in 2005.
"Anyone that is going to be involved in business, I think has a social obligation to go and touch and change lives," Yamada said. "I think business and social responsibility are interwoven and joined at the hip."
This stand has brought Yamada's family-run A-1 A-lectrician to contribute to a number of community-based religious organizations which includes Youth for Christ and Salvation Army.
They also support 15 missionaries in Asia and South America, and is an active donor to the University of Hawaii Foundation.
The company maintains a Good Samaritan fund where a certain percentage of their annual revenue goes to a discretionary fund.
According to Yamada, serving the community facilitates a balanced well-being.
Subsequently this contributes to personal fulfillment, he said.
"I think we have to be in balance because you can have business success but not have fulfillment in life if you're out of balance."
"So you can earn tens of millions of dollars but not have one of those dollars give ultimate fulfillment."
Yamada's philanthropical disposition was an outcome of his philosophical realizations in the early 90s.
He said his egotistic beliefs in the past were offset by life-changing experiences that he deemed were of divine nature.
A-1 A-lectrician is a $40 million electrical consulting firm whose employees currently number to about 150 from 25 in the 1970s.
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