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Tony Hsieh
Age: 46 †
Born: 1973
Born: December 12
Died: 2020
Died: November 27
Businessperson
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
Internet Entrepreneur
Urbana
Illinois
Xie Jiahua
Tony Xie
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Internet
Today
Need
Needs
Seo
Expertise
Businesses
Online

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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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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.
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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).
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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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A lot of people realize I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day, and I don't have to live in, for example, New York City where it's super expensive and if I live somewhere else that is less expensive and could pursue my passion like, I can afford to do that.
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We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself.
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A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.
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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Every employee can affect your company's brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.
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Rather than focus on trying to get a lot of customers to market yourself, really focus more on the actual product or service itself and existing users to, like, what would make them happier, what would make them come back more and more times or in our case buy more often.
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To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means do something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that’s above and beyond what’s expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver.
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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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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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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.
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Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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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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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
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