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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More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
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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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Your personal core values define who you are, and a company’s core values ultimately define the company’s character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we’ve gotten better.
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Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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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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Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.
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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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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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Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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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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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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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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