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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.

Tony Hsieh

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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Environment Myself People Role Work
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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Choice Company Decision Investment Myself Office People Reason Work
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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Alone Enough Happiness Lose Money True Yourself
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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Belief Brand Culture Empowerment Greatness Ourselves Passionate
Inspire other communities and cities to reinvent themselves.
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City Community Inspirational Invention
It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.
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Avoid Contact Corporation Cost Eyes Hall
Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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Corporate Personal Value
The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.
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Leadership Service
Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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Help People Story Yourself
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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Game Learning Lesson Love Myself Reflection World
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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Important Oneself People Thinking Value
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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Balance Business Decision Growth Learning Mistake Quick
Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.
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End Follow Money Vision
Problems are just mile markers. Each one we pass means we’ve gotten better.
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Each Other Oneself Problem
To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
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Forget Important Leadership Life Quality
SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.
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Business Day Digital Need Online

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 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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