What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.
TONY HSIEHThe best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
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Customer service shouldn’t just be A department, it should be the entire company.
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Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we’ve gotten better.
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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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Our customers call and e-mail us to say that’s how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that’s how we view this company.
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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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Whatever you are thinking, think bigger.
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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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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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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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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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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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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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