I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life.
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More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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I believe that there’s something interesting about anyone and everyone – you just have to figure out what that something is.
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Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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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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Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
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I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.
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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 brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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The biggest (and hardest) lesson I’ve learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.
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Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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I’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.
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