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Tadashi Yanai
Japanese
Businessman
Born:
Feb 7
,
1949
Become
People
Success
Will
World
You
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I learned that people don't buy anything from unknown stores.
Tadashi Yanai
Buy
People
Unknown
Learned
Stores
Anything
People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
Tadashi Yanai
People
Money
Spend
High-Quality
Lot
Get
Clothing
In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
Tadashi Yanai
Chasing
Trends
About
General
Perfect
Piece
Industry
Making
Improvement
Process
Apparel
Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
Tadashi Yanai
Fall
Too
Hamburgers
Often
Plain
Creating
Trap
More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
Tadashi Yanai
Fashion
Needs
Everything
Trends
Spice
More
Consumers
Like
Than
Element
Functionality
Need
We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
Tadashi Yanai
Best
Technology
World
Country
Think
Textile
Japanese
Manufacturing
I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
Tadashi Yanai
People
Collective
Tend
Hysteria
Afraid
Japanese
Japanese People
The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
Tadashi Yanai
World
Cities
More
More Or Less
Major
Metropolitan
Same
Less
I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
Tadashi Yanai
Politics
Hate
Say
Different
They Say
As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
Tadashi Yanai
Government
Change
Political
Power
Taxpayer
Critical
Leaders
Demand
However
Political Leaders
Hands
Businessperson
Right
You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
Tadashi Yanai
Crazy
You
Eccentric
Guy
Very
Little
Successful
Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
Tadashi Yanai
Just Be
Our
Out
See
Something
Cotton
Could
Underwear
Just
Wanted
Create
Used
America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.
Tadashi Yanai
Great
Me
You
Country
Valued
Something
Highly
Offer
America
Where
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.
Tadashi Yanai
Class
People
Opportunity
Will
Half
Big
Become
One-Third
Only
Least
Big Opportunity
Maybe
Middle
Middle Class
Japan
Asia
Japanese
Businessmen
Nearly
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.
Tadashi Yanai
Success
Amazing
Value
Rare
Giving
Employees
Build
Late
Valuing
Admire
About
Retail
Concept
Particularly
Also
Industry
Policy
Discount
His
Up
Very
Wal-Mart
Sam
Store
Story
Success Story
Much
Used
Strategies
I think I may not be able to retire.
Tadashi Yanai
Think
Able
Retire
May
Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.
Tadashi Yanai
Training
Employees
Important
Our
More
Outside
New
Opening
Stores
Japan
Even
Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
Tadashi Yanai
Great
People
Think
Took
Francisco
Weeks
Had
Welcoming
Came
Years
Years Ago
Impression
Get
San
San Francisco
Asia
Boat
Forty-Five
Here
Gate
Two
Two Weeks
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