Simon Sinek Quotes
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We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives.
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If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.
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When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.
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When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
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Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
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Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.
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We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.
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The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.
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The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail. No matter what we know they are there to support us and see us do well. Leaders are exactly the same.
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What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.
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Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.
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Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
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It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.
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It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.
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The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.
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The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
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The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.
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A why has to be for others. It's something you give to the world. It's the reason your friends love you because this is the thing that you give them and it fulfills them. This is the reason your clients love you or your fans love you because you give them something. It's something to offer, that's what the why is.
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I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.
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A group of followers has strength because of its numbers. A following has power because of its beliefs.
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I was never a writer.
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Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.
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Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
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I never set out to do the things I'm doing now.