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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.

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
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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Game Money People Play Understand Yourself
I’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.
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Customer Improvement Marketing Money
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 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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Creativity Employee Environment Myself Personality Role Shine Try View
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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Important Oneself People Thinking Value
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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Business Culture Employee Forget Goodness Happiness Service Suffering
Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Big Learning Thinking
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
Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Business Drive Goodness Greatness Profit
Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
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Brand Company Customer Employee Paid Talk 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
If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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Best Competition Hard Win Yourself
Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
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Company Fire Quick Recruitment Slow Way
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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Easy Enjoyment Equality Life Money Society Thinking
The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
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Leadership Service

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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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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