For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
TONY HSIEHJust figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.
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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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The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn’t based on external factors.
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For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
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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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SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.
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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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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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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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Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.
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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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Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?
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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.
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