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Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.

Tony Hsieh

Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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Company Culture Customer Employee Print Yourself
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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Burn Environment Feeling Hands Job Play Problem Rule 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
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
SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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Business Day Digital Need Online
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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Definition Happiness Lose Success True Ultimate Yourself
I believe that there’s something interesting about anyone and everyone – you just have to figure out what that something is.
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Believe Interest Myself
Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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Business Fast Kind Quick Yourself
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
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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Best Build Care Culture Customer Decision Right Service
If you’re focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it’s actually how a lot of stuff happens.
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Existence Focus Friendship Myself Reward
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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Choice Company Decision Investment Myself Office People Reason Work
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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Different End Exposure Force Life Science Thinking Yourself
It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.
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Avoid Contact Corporation Cost Eyes Hall
Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.
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Belief Brand Culture Empowerment Greatness Ourselves Passionate
Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.
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