Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
TONY HSIEHOpen, 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.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values – and not just the stated ones.
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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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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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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.
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Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.
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We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself.
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I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it’s a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.
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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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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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Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
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Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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