Simon Sinek Quotes
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What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
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Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.
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Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back
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The more you inspire, the more people will inspire you.
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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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If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
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What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
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I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.
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Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.
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Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.
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There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.
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The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.
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I don't care about preaching to the converted.
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Of course there are people out there who are helping others find their why. Some are doing a really great job and some are doing a not so great job. I love the fact there are people out there, and consultants out there doing that.
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I'm very prescriptive about who I work with.
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You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.
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Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.
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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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Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.
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We think that we all have to like each other before we trust each other and that necessarily is not the case.
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To spend more money, you have to have more money, but time is fixed and we all have the same amount to spare. How we choose to spend it can make a significant difference on the impact we have in our careers or in the world.
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Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.
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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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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.