Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
TONY HSIEHA 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.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).
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Your brand is your culture.
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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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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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To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
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The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
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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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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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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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Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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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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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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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.
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