For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
TONY HSIEHEnvision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Our customers call and e-mail us to say that’s how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that’s how we view this company.
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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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Your culture is your brand.
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We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn’t want to just sell shoes. I wasn’t even into shoes – but I was passionate about customer service.
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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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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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I believe that there’s something interesting about anyone and everyone – you just have to figure out what that something is.
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What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
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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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Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
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Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.
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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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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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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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The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn’t based on external factors.
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