Tadashi Yanai Quotes
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
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Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
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Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.
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I think I may not be able to retire.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
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I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.
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Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
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I learned that people don't buy anything from unknown stores.