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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.

Tony Hsieh

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 brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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Brand Company Culture
Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
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Enjoyment Fun Money Try
If you’re worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.
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Basic Contribution Food Money Worry Yourself
Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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Lose Start Success True Yourself
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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Brand Character Culture Definition Destiny Organization Personal Value
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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Acceptance Adapt Change Comfortable Company Enough Quick Response Status
Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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Company Customer Service
Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Big Learning Thinking
SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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Business Day Digital Need Online
Your brand is your culture.
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Brand Culture One Liner
There’s a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
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Big Care Difference Inspirational Motivational Value
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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Important Oneself People Thinking Value
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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Call Company Customer Feeling View
Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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Change Help Inspirational World
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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Big Connection Control Happiness Relationship Vision

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