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.
TONY HSIEHThe 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.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values – and not just the stated ones.
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A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it’s harder to turn quickly.
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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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Twitter is like hugging. Just because it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there.
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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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Your brand is your culture.
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SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
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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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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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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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