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.
TONY HSIEHChase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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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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The biggest (and hardest) lesson I’ve learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.
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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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Whatever you are thinking, think bigger.
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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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There’s a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
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Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
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Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
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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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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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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.
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Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.
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