Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
TONY HSIEHEnvision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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I’d rather spend money on things that improve the customer experience than on marketing.
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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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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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Your brand is your culture.
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Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.
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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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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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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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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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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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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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I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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