Simon Sinek Quotes
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When someone asks for your time, and you put your phone away to talk to them... that's leadership.
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It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.
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Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.
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Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.
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When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.
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Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.
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Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.
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Great communicators don't just hear the words. Great communicators hear the meaning behind the words
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If you go to the gym and you come home and look into the mirror, you'll see nothing. If you go the next day and you come home, you will see nothing. In fact sometimes you're in pain.
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It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.
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The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
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Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?
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We don't learn much when everything goes right. We learn the most when things go wrong.
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Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.
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Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.
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When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.
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If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.
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When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.
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The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
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Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.
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The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
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Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
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We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.
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Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders—in that order.