Simon Sinek Quotes
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When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.
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Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired.
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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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When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.
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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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Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war. People said that life sucked. And he said, "No." He was an eternal optimist who said: "Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family." Look what happened. His cause grew and people committed themselves to helping him grow the Disney why and it was hugely successful.
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Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.
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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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Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
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A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.
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Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders—in that order.
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I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.
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Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.
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The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.