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More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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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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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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For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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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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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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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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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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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
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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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Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.
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