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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Baby
  • Now

• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Funny

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Jump

• 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.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Boy
  • Down
  • Fish

• 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.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Doing
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • American
  • Violence
  • Pie

• Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Conflict
  • The Right Thing

• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Lies
  • Possible

• 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.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • America
  • Violence
  • Problems

• I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Losing

• 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.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Maggie Shayne
  • Done
  • Job
  • Book

• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Democracy
  • Idea
  • Slave

• 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.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Hindu

• One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Time
  • Great
  • New

• I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • Family
  • Quality

• Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.

  

  Takeshi Uchiyamada
  • Time
  • Driving
  • Most

• I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.

  

  Antonia Thomas
  • Music
  • She
  • Holiday

• Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

  

  Faith Sullivan
  • Money
  • Poverty

• 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.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Special