Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.
TONY HSIEHIf you’re worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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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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Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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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 personal core values define who you are, and a company’s core values ultimately define the company’s character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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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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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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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.
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SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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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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