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Tony Hsieh

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.
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Conscious Effort Win
Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Big Learning Thinking
For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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Character Culture Destiny Organization
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
Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Business Drive Goodness Greatness Profit
If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they’re not self-aware, I think it’s harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.
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Aware Beyond Evolution Growth Hard Myself Thinking
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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Communication Feeling Foundation Honesty Open People Remember Yourself
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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Big Connection Control Happiness Relationship Vision
Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren’t able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.
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Acceptance Adapt Change Comfortable Company Enough Quick Response Status
Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
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Brand Company Customer Employee Paid Talk Yourself
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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Game Money People Play Understand Yourself
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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Definition Happiness Lose Success True Ultimate Yourself
Your brand is your culture.
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Brand Culture One Liner
Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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Lose Start Success True Yourself
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
The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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Best Business Combination Purpose

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