Simon Sinek Quotes
Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu mythology, that's the abode of Lord Shiva.
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Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
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I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
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When I need a break from the boys, I go with my girlfriend to buy pretty little dresses for her daughter.
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
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Hynkel, the dictator, ruled the nation with an iron fist. Under the new emblem of the double cross, liberty was banished, free speech was suppressed and only the voice of Hynkel was heard.
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Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.
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Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.
