The biggest (and hardest) lesson I’ve learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.
TONY HSIEHJust figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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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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Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.
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We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn’t want to just sell shoes. I wasn’t even into shoes – but I was passionate about customer service.
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To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
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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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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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SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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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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Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.
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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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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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For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
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Hopefully 10 years from now people won’t even realize we started out selling shoes. They will just think about Zappos as a place to get the best customer service.
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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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