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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.

Tony Hsieh

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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End Follow Money Vision
Your brand is your culture.
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Brand Culture One Liner
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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Balance Business Decision Growth Learning Mistake Quick
Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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Lose Start Success True Yourself
The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
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Leadership Service
To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
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Forget Important Leadership Life Quality
I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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Happiness Life Money Myself
Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Big Learning Thinking
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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Communication Feeling Foundation Honesty Open People Remember Yourself
What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
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Best Brand Build Business Culture Way
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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Game Money People Play Understand Yourself
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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Customer Forget Hope People Place Service Start
Money alone isn’t enough to bring happiness… happiness is when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have.
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Alone Enough Happiness Lose Money True Yourself
There’s a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
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Big Care Difference Inspirational Motivational Value
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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Creativity Employee Environment Myself Personality Role Shine Try View
Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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City Community Inspirational Invention

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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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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