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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.

Tony Hsieh

If I was going to go into an office I wanted it to be with people I would choose to be around even if we didn’t have to work together and so that was one of the major reasons why I decided out of all the different companies we invested in to work with Zappos.
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Choice Company Decision Investment Myself Office People Reason Work
Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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Company Customer Service
We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself.
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Best Build Care Culture Customer Decision Right Service
Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own
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Industry Innovation Yourself
Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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Company Customer Department Service
Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.
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Decision Easy Principle True Yourself
I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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Happiness Life Money Myself
What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
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Best Brand Build Business Culture Way
Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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Believe Form Spiritual Universe Vision Yourself
Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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Company Culture Customer Employee Print Yourself
Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we’ve gotten better.
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Each Other Oneself Problem
Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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Business Fast Kind Quick Yourself
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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Believe Interest Myself
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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Burn Environment Feeling Hands Job Play Problem Rule Yourself
It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.
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Avoid Contact Corporation Cost Eyes Hall
Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
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Enjoyment Fun Money Try

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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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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