Simon Sinek Quotes
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
Quotes to Explore
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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Vampires are super sexy.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.
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One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
