Your culture is your brand.
TONY HSIEHMoney alone isn’t enough to bring happiness… happiness is when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we’ve gotten better.
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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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SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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I’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.
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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.
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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Your brand is your culture.
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A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it’s harder to turn quickly.
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Hopefully 10 years from now people won’t even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service.
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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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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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For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
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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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