The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.
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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Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.
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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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Hopefully 10 years from now people won’t even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service.
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The biggest (and hardest) lesson I’ve learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.
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Your culture is your brand.
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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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Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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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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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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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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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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The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
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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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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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