Simon Sinek Quotes
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There are leaders, and there are those who lead. Leaders are those who hold a position of power or authority. But those who lead are those who inspire us. And it's those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.
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What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.
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When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.
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Leadership is like parenting.
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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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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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Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
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Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.
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A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.
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The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
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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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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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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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The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
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Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.
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We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected.
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Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.
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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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The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
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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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If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.
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Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.
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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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Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.