The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn’t based on external factors.
TONY HSIEHThe ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn’t based on external factors.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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I’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.
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The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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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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Your culture is your brand.
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Whatever you are thinking, think bigger.
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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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If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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Open, honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it’s not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters the most.
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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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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
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Hopefully 10 years from now people won’t even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service.
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We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn’t want to just sell shoes. I wasn’t even into shoes – but I was passionate about customer service.
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Our customers call and e-mail us to say that’s how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that’s how we view this company.
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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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