For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
TONY HSIEHHappiness 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).
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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Twitter is like hugging. Just because it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there.
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The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn’t based on external factors.
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SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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Our customers call and e-mail us to say that’s how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that’s how we view this company.
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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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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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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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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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Your culture is your brand.
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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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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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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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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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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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