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.
TONY HSIEHEnvision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Twitter is like hugging. Just because it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there.
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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.
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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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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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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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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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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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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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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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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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Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own
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