Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
TONY HSIEHYour culture is your brand.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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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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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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Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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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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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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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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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
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Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.
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Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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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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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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