In the introduction, Tony warns you that this book is not just about Zappos, or any other company he has been a part of; and it is not an autobiography. It is about him, and his path to happiness and finding out what that is and how to obtain it. Now naturally, information will come from his business life but what I really loved about the first part of this book, is that he includes bits of humor, to keep the reading light and enjoyable. I really enjoyed the first part of this book.
Now, to the reading; the second to last line of the second chapter is, "...I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion." WOW! This coming from the man who just sold his multi million dollar company, is pretty amazing! What I really loved about this first section, is he did not money control his happiness. Whenever he wasn't being true to his passion, and followed money, his productivity suffered. I loved that he was able to stop, right in the middle of all his LinkExchane/ Microsoft success, and say, what makes me happy? What do I love to do? When he realized that he what he was doing wasn't on that list, he walked away. I am sure it wasn't quite that simple, but to me, pretty amazing!
Another one of my favorite lines is, "...ultimate happiness is really just about enjoying life." I found that many of Tony's choices stemmed from his desire to be happy. It was not about status, money or power, just pure happiness. I believe that was his greatest profit of all.
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