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.
TONY HSIEHEnvision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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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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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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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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Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.
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The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
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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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I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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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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Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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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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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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Your brand is your culture.
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