Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
TONY HSIEHI 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.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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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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Your brand is your culture.
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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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Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren’t able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.
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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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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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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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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can’t deliver good service from unhappy employees.
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Your personal core values define who you are, and a company’s core values ultimately define the company’s character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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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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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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