{"id":2792,"date":"2013-09-22T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T22:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2013-09-22T17:35:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T22:35:48","slug":"on-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/09\/22\/on-scale","title":{"rendered":"On Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/7d5ca382-2069-11e3-b8c6-00144feab7de.html#axzz2feJKtvfG\">Lunch with the FT: Tadashi Yanai &#8211; FT.com<\/a>: <strong>&#8220;\u2018Scale has no importance on its own,\u2019 he shoots back. \u2018But unless you have scale, you may not be able to stay alive or competitive. Unless you have scale, you can be bought by someone else or you may go bankrupt.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Tadashi Yanai, Fast Retailing, makers of Uniqlo.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a classic mistake to prioritise scale over profits. 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