Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.
TONY HSIEHTo never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.
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I’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.
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Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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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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Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
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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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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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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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Your brand is your culture.
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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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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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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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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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