I believe that there’s something interesting about anyone and everyone – you just have to figure out what that something is.
TONY HSIEHA great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
More Tony Hsieh Quotes
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Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
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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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The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.
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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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Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.
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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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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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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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Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
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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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Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.
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Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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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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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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