The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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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Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.
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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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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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Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own
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The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
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SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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Your culture is your brand.
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I’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.
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Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it’s harder to turn quickly.
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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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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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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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I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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