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.
TONY HSIEHYour brand is your culture.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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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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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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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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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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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.
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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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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself.
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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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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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Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its own.
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