Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
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More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Money alone isn’t enough to bring happiness… happiness is when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have.
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Your culture is your brand.
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The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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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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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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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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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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Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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Your brand is your culture.
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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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There’s a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
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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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I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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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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