If you’re worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.
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More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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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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If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own
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I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values – and not just the stated ones.
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Your brand is your culture.
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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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If you’re focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it’s actually how a lot of stuff happens.
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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself.
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I believe that there’s something interesting about anyone and everyone – you just have to figure out what that something is.
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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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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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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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