Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
TONY HSIEHLaunching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.
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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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Your personal core values define who you are, and a company’s core values ultimately define the company’s character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
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I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values – and not just the stated ones.
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Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.
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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they’re not self-aware, I think it’s harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.
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Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
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If you’re focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it’s actually how a lot of stuff happens.
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I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it’s a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.
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