Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsiehis an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is the CEO of the online shoe and clothing shop Zappos. Prior to joining Zappos, Hsieh co-founded the internet advertising network LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft in 1999 for $265 million...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
motivational believe form
Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
years numbers advice
My advice is to stop trying to "network" in the traditional business sense, and instead just try to build up the number and depth of your friendships, where the friendship itself is its own reward. The more diverse your set of friendships are, the more likely you'll derive both personal and business benefits from your friendship later down the road. You won't know exactly what those benefits will be, but if your friendships are genuine, those benefits will magically appear 2-3 years later down the road.
great-business good-business profit
Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
lines inspirational-customer-service employee
Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
long empowering culture
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.
figures personal-values corporate
Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
culture brands
Your brand is your culture.
stress roof-over-your-head tables
If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.
years stuff-happens rewards
If you're focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it's actually how a lot of stuff happens.
culture company indicators
The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company's culture.
office people together
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.
sorry people investing
Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since.
lists moral periods
I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.
seems
Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.