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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.

Tony Hsieh

The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
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Leadership Service
The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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Best Business Combination Purpose
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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Burn Environment Feeling Hands Job Play Problem Rule Yourself
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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Choice Company Decision Investment Myself Office People Reason Work
Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Business Drive Goodness Greatness Profit
Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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Inspirational Money Passion Start
Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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Appearance Bad Goodness
I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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Happiness Life Money Myself
Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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Help People Story Yourself
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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Company Customer Myself Passionate Service Stand
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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Existence Focus Friendship Myself Reward
Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.
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Attitude Better Humble Yourself
Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.
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Conscious Effort Win
If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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Best Competition Hard Win Yourself
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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Game Learning Lesson Love Myself Reflection World
Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
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Game Money People Play Understand Yourself

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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