Simon Sinek Quotes

Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

Simon Sinek

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• Environment
• Coffee
• Pressure
• Chairs
• Desks
• Outlets

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• If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • God
  • Dead

• I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Man
  • Risk

• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Heart
  • Car
  • Cancer

• I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Years
  • Period

• I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Growing

• Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Bad
  • Ideas

• Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Food
  • Short

• During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Want
  • Religious
  • Mad

• When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Want
  • You
  • Know

• I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Republican
  • Democrat
  • Nor

• I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movie
  • Industry
  • Ups And Downs

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Impulses

• Mainly I love working on good writing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Working

• For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • School
  • High
  • Death

• Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing … chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Free
  • Focus
  • Brain

• It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Music
  • Environment

• Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them.

  

  James Dashner
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Happy

• No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

  

  Irving Howe
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Space

• Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Space
  • Environment
  • Coffee