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Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.

Tony Hsieh

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
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
SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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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
Whatever you are thinking, think bigger.
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Big Thinking Yourself
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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Creativity Employee Environment Myself Personality Role Shine Try View
I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
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Company Fire Quick Recruitment Slow Way
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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Easy Enjoyment Equality Life Money Society Thinking
Open, honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it’s not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters the most.
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Communication Feeling Foundation Honesty Open People Remember Yourself
Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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Believe Form Spiritual Universe Vision Yourself
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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Brand Company Customer Employee Paid Talk Yourself
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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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
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
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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Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.

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