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Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.

Tony Hsieh

Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.
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Culture Fall Place Right
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
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
Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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Company Culture Customer Employee Print Yourself
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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Big Business Quick Yourself
Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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Believe Form Spiritual Universe Vision Yourself
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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Company Customer Myself Passionate Service Stand
It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.
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Avoid Contact Corporation Cost Eyes Hall
Your brand is your culture.
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Brand Culture One Liner
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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Burn Environment Feeling Hands Job Play Problem Rule Yourself
SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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Business Day Digital Need Online
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
To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
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Forget Important Leadership Life Quality
Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Big Learning Thinking
If you’re focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it’s actually how a lot of stuff happens.
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Existence Focus Friendship Myself Reward
A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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Brand Greatness Stop

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