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.
TONY HSIEHAsk yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Money alone isn’t enough to bring happiness… happiness is when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have.
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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own
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Your brand is your culture.
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Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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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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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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Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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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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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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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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If I was going to go into an office I wanted it to be with people I would choose to be around even if we didn’t have to work together and so that was one of the major reasons why I decided out of all the different companies we invested in to work with Zappos.
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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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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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