Simon Sinek Quotes
The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.
Quotes to Explore
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.
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I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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The summer lasted a long long time, like verse after verse of a ballad, but when it ended, it ended like a man falling dead in the street of heart trouble. One night, all in one night, severe winter came, a white horse of snow rolling over Bountiful, snorting and rolling in its meadows, its fields.
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If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.
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With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics.
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The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.
