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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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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It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.
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Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.
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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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Great communicators don't just hear the words. Great communicators hear the meaning behind the words
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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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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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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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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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We don't learn much when everything goes right. We learn the most when things go wrong.
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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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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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Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.
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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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I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.
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Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
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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.