What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
TONY HSIEHIt 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.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.
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Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own
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To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
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Your culture is your brand.
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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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Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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There’s a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
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Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.
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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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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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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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