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.
TONY HSIEHEvery employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
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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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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it’s a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.
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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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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.
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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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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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