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.
TONY HSIEHI made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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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 brand is your culture.
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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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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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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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If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
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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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I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.
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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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Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.
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I believe that there’s something interesting about anyone and everyone – you just have to figure out what that something is.
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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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