What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
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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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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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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Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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Your culture is your brand.
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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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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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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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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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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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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they’re not self-aware, I think it’s harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.
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Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own
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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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Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
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