Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
TONY HSIEHTo never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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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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Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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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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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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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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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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Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it’s when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you’re growing so quickly.
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Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than 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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Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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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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