Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
TONY HSIEHGet the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than 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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A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it’s harder to turn quickly.
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Your brand is your culture.
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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.
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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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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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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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Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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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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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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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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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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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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