Delivering Happiness Quotes

“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).”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness . . . happiness [is] when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“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.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“If you have more than 3 priorities then you don’t have any.” —Jim Collins”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“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.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Never outsource your core competency.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“We must all learn not only to not fear change, but to embrace it enthusiastically and, perhaps even more important, encourage and drive it.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Act weak when strong, act strong when weak. Know when to bluff.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“It’s important to constantly challenge and stretch yourself, and not be stuck in a job where you don’t feel like you are growing or learning.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“The combination of physical synchrony with other humans and being part of something bigger than oneself (and thus losing momentarily a sense of self) leads to a greater sense of happiness.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“The best leaders are those that lead by example and are both team followers as well as team leaders. We believe that in general, the best ideas and decisions are made from the bottom up, meaning by those on the front lines that are closest to the issues and/or the customers. The role of a manager is to remove obstacles and enable his/her direct reports to succeed. This means the best leaders are servant-leaders. They serve those they lead.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. —MORPHEUS, THE MATRIX”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“We must never lose our sense of urgency in making improvements. We must never settle for “good enough,” because good is the enemy of great,”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“I failed my way to success. —THOMAS EDISON”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny. —BERTICE BERRY”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Continual Learning Educate yourself. Read books and learn from others who have done it before. Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience. Learn by surrounding yourself with talented players. Just because you win a hand doesn’t mean you’re good and you don’t have more learning to do. You might have just gotten lucky. Don’t be afraid to ask for advice.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“living by the philosophy that experiences were much more important to me than material things.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“sometimes the truth alone isn’t enough, and that presentation of the truth was just as important as the truth.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Yet no matter how much better we get, we’ll always have hard work to do, we’ll never be done, and we’ll never get it right.”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“Be humble: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.” —Shunryu Suzuki”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life. I”
― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose