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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.


Tadashi Yanai

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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
TADASHI YANAI Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
TADASHI YANAI The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working t...
TADASHI YANAI Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our hom...
TADASHI YANAI Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synth...
TADASHI YANAI The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
TADASHI YANAI The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there...
TADASHI YANAI Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton...
TADASHI YANAI The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we...
TADASHI YANAI Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
TADASHI YANAI At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products...
TADASHI YANAI I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must r...
TADASHI YANAI Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.
TADASHI YANAI At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national b...
TADASHI YANAI People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
TADASHI YANAI More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that'...
TADASHI YANAI You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
TADASHI YANAI We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is ...
TADASHI YANAI It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique e...
TADASHI YANAI If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challe...
TADASHI YANAI As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of th...
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TADASHI YANAI Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle ...
TADASHI YANAI Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here....
TADASHI YANAI The Japanese economy hit the bottom a few years ago and now Japanese companies are thinking real har...
KAORU KOYANO Japanese companies are way ahead of American companies in recognizing this fact. You need to have so...
CLIVE JONES Our movie also received offers from French, British and Japanese distribution companies.
LEE RAYMOND We have business with most of those Japanese companies.
NOBUO KUROYANAGI Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking.
MAHATMA GANDHI Investors are cautious as the main theme this week is earnings in the United States in the first hal...
YUMI NISHIMURA Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese...
SHINZO ABE Many Japanese companies are now much more focused on enhancing shareholder value, which is creating ...
ERIC MASON We do see a lot of earnings acceleration in Japan in a couple of sectors in particular. We've got go...
LYNETTE SCHROEDER THEY AREN'T PATIENT. Hyundai has become a force in the U.S. to the point where they are forcing both...
DENNIS KEENE I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
MICHAEL GOVE [HOT SECTORS. As a stock-picker, he likes Japanese banks, brokerages, and insurance companies.] Fina...
MARK HEADLEY Technically, she's got top value. What we have always been lacking coming out of the U.S. are the gi...
ELIZABETH MANLEY The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, Ge...
ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD After 15 or 20 years of trial and error, Japanese companies are now becoming better at managing. The...
KAORU KOYANO Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people...
MATTHEW STEWART In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It's made it more difficult for some of the Japanese transplant companies here to get timely equipme...
DON PETERS The ruling was unjust. The Japanese government and related companies should apologize. We will conti...
CUI GUANGTING Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything.
JO WALTON Japanese companies basically follow one of two models: They're open or they're closed. Japanese make...
KOYA TABATA Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.
MASTER JIN KWON In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is depend...
KARL MARX A stronger U.S. dollar will lead to higher Japanese exports, that's why export-oriented companies le...
ERIC WONG There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.
DEMOCRITUS If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business lan...
SHUJI NAKAMURA Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
THOMAS MORE Relationships flourish,
when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.
MASTER JIN KWON In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There...
MASAYOSHI SON We anticipate Japanese companies will try to compete in hiring good workers, driving up wages. Impro...
TAKUJI AIDA People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji b...
OCTAVIA SPENCER Almost 90 per cent reconditioned cars used inside Bangladesh are imported from Japanese Toyota Compa...
ABDUL HAQUE If you are lacking confidence in something, just keep trying and don’t give up.
SUSAN C. YOUNG Bob is one of the most astute businesspeople I know,
RICK DANIELS We know of four Japanese biomedical companies right now that are using San Antonio clinical faciliti...
HENRY CISNEROS Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.
DEMI LOVATO The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.
VICTORIA BECKHAM When you are lacking in faith, Others will be unfaithful to you.
TAO SAYING I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.
CESAR MILLAN We are seeing a belief that the Japanese economy is recovering. The Japanese are going to keep their...
PAUL DONOVAN In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into conce...
ROB WALTON Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.
JANEANE GAROFALO Sadly, children are lacking in the healthcare coverage they need in every community in Illinois.
BARRY MARAM They are lacking for so much and then they got robbed.
ALEXIS ADAMJEE Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
NICK HANAUER The news on U.S. Steel has prompted some buying of steelmakers. You cannot completely rule out the p...
KOJI UCHIDA I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,
CLYDE PRESTOWITZ Japanese and foreign investors are now rushing to unwind yen-carry positions on concerns over possib...
MASAHI HASHIMOTO Overseas demand for autos, IT goods and construction machinery which had long supported the overall ...
JUNICHI MAKINO The Japanese are starting to get worried about the Korean brands for the same reasons the domestics ...
ART SPINELLA All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, an...
ALFRED ADLER Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen t...
ALEXEI MAXIM RUSSELL The Japanese government and businesses are friends of Iran.
MANUCHEHR MOTTAKI We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wi...
THEODORE C. BESTOR We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.
TOSHIHIRO WADA Communications and coordination was lacking, preplanning was lacking. We were not prepared for this.
WILLIAM LOKEY I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese,...
NATSUKI TAKAYA The Japanese share market will strongly outperform New York in the next five years, ... The enormous...
MARC FABER Old Japanese companies tend to stick to business that they started, so it's a positive move because ...
KOJI NAKATSUKA I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in...
PAUL KRASSNER It's not the Japanese who are causing the market share decline. It's Americans buying the Japanese v...
BRUCE BELZOWSKI I think the Japanese are concerned with the pace of the yen weakening and you have seen comments fro...
HUGH WALSH In terms of demographics, the Japanese are fighting a two-front war,
ART SPINELLA Japanese consumers are in the process of embracing the concept of value.
DAVID MARRA People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste ...
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE The Japanese auto companies are saying you have to meet a world price. Whether it's China, Mexico, B...
GREG YOUNG You don't need to have a Japanese just because you are a Japanese company. Japan Air operates global...
EITARO ITOYAMA I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
ELI BROAD Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
FRANZ LISZT It's difficult, because math and science are areas where we're lacking around the country.
JAMES JENKINS

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