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.
TONY HSIEHThe 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.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Money alone isn’t enough to bring happiness… happiness is when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have.
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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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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’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.
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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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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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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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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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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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Your culture is your brand.
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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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For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
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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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