Tadashi Yanai
Businessman
1949-02-07
Quotes by Tadashi Yanai
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Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.
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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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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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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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