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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.

Tony Hsieh

Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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Big Inspirational Thinking Yourself
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
For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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Character Culture Destiny Organization
Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
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Game Money People Play Understand Yourself
Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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Believe Form Spiritual Universe Vision 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
Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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Company Customer Service
Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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Lose Start Success True Yourself
If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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Best Competition Hard Win Yourself
Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.
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Culture Fall Place Right
Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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Inspirational Money Passion Start
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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Call Company Customer Feeling View
Your culture is your brand.
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Brand Culture One Liner
Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Big Learning Thinking
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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Easy Enjoyment Equality Life Money Society Thinking
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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Creativity Employee Environment Myself Personality Role Shine Try View

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