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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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Cities
Community
Reinvent

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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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Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.
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Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing Worcestershire sauce.
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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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Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.
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Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.
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Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
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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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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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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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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.
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SEO expertise is a core need for today's online businesses.
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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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To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.
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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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Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.
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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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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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A great brand is a story that never stops unfolding.
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Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.
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