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 … - Tony Hsieh

One of the most interesting things about playing poker was learning the discipline of not confusing the right decision with the individual outcome of any single hand, but that’s what a lot of poker players do. If they win a hand, they assume they made the right bet, and if they lose a hand, they often assume they made the wrong bet. With the coin that lands on heads a third of the time, this would be like seeing the coin land on heads once (the individual outcome) and changing your behavior so you bet on heads, when the mathematically correct thing to do is to always bet on tails no matter what happened in the previous coin flip (the right decision).

I failed my way to success. — THOMAS EDISON

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.