The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
TONY HSIEHTwitter is like hugging. Just because it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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Success is getting to a point where you’d be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.
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For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.
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Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.
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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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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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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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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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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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Your brand is your culture.
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Your culture is your brand.
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Our belief is that if you get the culture right, most of the other stuff, like great customer service, or building a great long-term brand or empowering passionate employees and customers, will happen on its 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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