Tony Hsieh Quotes

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

Embracing change is central to Amazon's DNA.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

We must change to master change.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.

In nature and state, it is safer to change many things than one.