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.
TONY HSIEHJust figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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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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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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Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
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Money alone isn’t enough to bring happiness… happiness is when you’re actually truly ok with losing everything you have.
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Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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Your culture is your brand.
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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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I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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The biggest (and hardest) lesson I’ve learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.
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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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The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company’s culture.
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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.
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Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
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