If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.
TONY HSIEHThe best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.
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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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Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
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The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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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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Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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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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Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).
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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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Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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Your culture is your brand.
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Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.
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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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