Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
TONY HSIEHLaunching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.
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Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.
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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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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.
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Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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If you’re worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.
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Money alone isn’t enough to bring happiness… happiness is when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have.
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For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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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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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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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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The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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