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Walter Dods Jr. has come a long way from living in a quonset hut with his family to being a CEO of the largest and most profitable corporation in Hawaii.
A son of an orphan and the eldest of seven children, he paid his way through night school at the University of Hawaii as a Marketing student.
Graduating from highschool, Dods had the faintest idea of what he wanted to do in life.
"When I got out of highschool I thought if I could ever make $10,000 a year that would be the ultimate experience for me," he said. "I had no big goals, no big dreams early on."
But then along the way he began to realize his worth and value as he began to engage in community-based activities.
"I found that all these people that I admired and looked at, they were really fine people, but I found when I got heavily involved I felt I could do as well," Dods said. "And then if you really put a lot of hard work in to things you could go a lot further than one could imagine. So I just went and said 'I can do this' and I did it."
His philanthropic engagement was never a personal tenet. Walter Dods imparted his social mission by encouraging his co-workers to be active both at work and in the community.
"You have to go up two tracks at the same time, your business track and your community service track," he said. "And amazing things happen if you spend time in the community with pure thoughts of helping people. Believe it or not you business will benefit dramatically by it."
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