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.
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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What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
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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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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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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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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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Whatever you are thinking, think bigger.
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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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Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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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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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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If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they’re not self-aware, I think it’s harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.
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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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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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