"Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first."

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Source : "Online Extra: Q&A with Canon's Fujio Mitarai". Interview with Irene M. Kunii, www.bloomberg.com. February 11, 2002.

Fujio Mitarai

#Fall Quotes #People Quotes #Debt Quotes

“Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.”
“So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy their self-confidence and, indirectly, support the Western assertion that Islam is a "spent force".”
“I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.”
“I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.”

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“Whatever age we are is the age weâ€™ve always been.”
“This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term.”
“That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.”
“I no longer limit myself.”

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