Simon Sinek Quotes
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If somebody wants to learn their why, either you help them or send them over to their course. All of this stuff helps.
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Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.
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Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
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If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for
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I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get to or who are implementing the work and helping people actually learn their why or practice their why or implement their why because I don't do that.
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Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.
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The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
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Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.
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Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.
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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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Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.
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Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
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I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I said, "I don't know. Let's try." Somebody said will this work in entrepreneurs, relationships or government and military. I said, "I don't know. Let's try." I kept applying the scientific method. I had a theory. I kept applying that theory, looking for opportunities to fail and it kept working.
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Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.
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I put messages out there that start with why and they talk about what I believe. They go on to demonstrate and give examples. If it resonates with others, those with whom it resonates will share it with their friends and say, "This inspired me. You should watch it. You should read this."
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Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.
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Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.
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I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.
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The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.
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We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.
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The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.
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The responsibility of the company is to help the people, grow as people. If we can do that, then the company will grow as a company.
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I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.
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I'm interested in the left side of the Bell Curve.