Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
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For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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Your brand is your culture.
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I’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.
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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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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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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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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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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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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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Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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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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I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it’s a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.
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