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Tony Hsieh

Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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Business Fast Kind Quick 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
What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
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Best Brand Build Business Culture Way
SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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Business Day Digital Need Online
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
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
Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it’s when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you’re growing so quickly.
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Balance Business Decision Growth Learning Mistake Quick
The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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Brand Company Culture
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
There’s a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
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Big Care Difference Inspirational Motivational Value
Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.
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Business Culture Employee Forget Goodness Happiness Service Suffering
Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own
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Industry Innovation Yourself
I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.
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Creativity Employee Environment Myself Personality Role Shine Try View
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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Easy Enjoyment Equality Life Money Society Thinking
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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Different End Exposure Force Life Science Thinking Yourself

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