Tony Hsieh Quotes

Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.

A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'

Microsoft's culture is very strong.

I have a great team at WME.

You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's my big-picture focus.

I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.

When we buy somebody, we cut the head off. We keep the operators who are looking - I hate to use this term - they're looking for a leader. We lead very well. And we immediately spend money on them and make them better. Everybody wants to be led. Except for me. I want to lead.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.

The right people don't care about a corner office - they care about the culture, if you're mission-driven, what you're going to do to make the world a better place.

Netflix is famous for its corporate culture, which rightly emphasizes directness and personal responsibility.

When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.