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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More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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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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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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Your culture is your brand.
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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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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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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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The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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There’s a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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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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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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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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