“If 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.”

Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.

Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.

The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.

The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.

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.

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

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.

Twitter is like hugging. Just because it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there.

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.

Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.

Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.

Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.

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.

There is one basic cause of all effects.

The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.

To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.