Your culture is your brand.
TONY HSIEHThe 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.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren’t able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.
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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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Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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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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Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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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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Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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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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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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Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we’ve gotten better.
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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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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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If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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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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