Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
TONY HSIEHBusinesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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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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Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.
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Your brand is your culture.
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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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Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own
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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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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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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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Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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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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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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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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Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we’ve gotten better.
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