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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

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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Happiness Life Money Myself
Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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Inspirational Money Passion Start
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
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
Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.
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Business Culture Employee Forget Goodness Happiness Service Suffering
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
Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
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Company Fire Quick Recruitment Slow Way
Your brand is your culture.
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Brand Culture One Liner
Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Business Drive Goodness Greatness Profit
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
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
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
Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we’ve gotten better.
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Each Other Oneself Problem
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
I believe that there’s something interesting about anyone and everyone – you just have to figure out what that something is.
TONY HSIEH

Believe Interest Myself
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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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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