black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

Tony Hsieh

Twitter is like hugging. Just because it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there.
TONY HSIEH

Hard Hug Measurement Value
Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
TONY HSIEH

Company Customer Service
Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
TONY HSIEH

End Follow Money Vision
There’s a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
TONY HSIEH

Big Care Difference Inspirational Motivational Value
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.
TONY HSIEH

Best Build Care Culture Customer Decision Right Service
Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
TONY HSIEH

Appearance Bad Goodness
Your culture is your brand.
TONY HSIEH

Brand Culture One Liner
The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
TONY HSIEH

Leadership Service
If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
TONY HSIEH

Best Competition Hard Win Yourself
I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.
TONY HSIEH

Creativity Employee Environment Myself Personality Role Shine Try View
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.
TONY HSIEH

Basic Contribution Food Money Worry Yourself
Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
TONY HSIEH

Corporate Personal Value
Money alone isn’t enough to bring happiness… happiness is when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have.
TONY HSIEH

Alone Enough Happiness Lose Money True Yourself
Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
TONY HSIEH

Big Learning Thinking
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.
TONY HSIEH

Avoid Contact Corporation Cost Eyes Hall
Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we’ve gotten better.
TONY HSIEH

Each Other Oneself Problem

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tony Hsieh Quotes