The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
TONY HSIEHYour brand is your culture.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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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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Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.
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Twitter is like hugging. Just because it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there.
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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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Our customers call and e-mail us to say that’s how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that’s how we view this company.
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Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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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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If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
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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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Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.
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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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