Simon Sinek Quotes
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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 never wanted to be a public speaker.
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What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.
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Leadership is a choice to protect the person to the left of us, and protect the person to the right of us, and sometimes that may come at a cost. It may cost us our benefits, it may cost us our comfort, it may sometimes cost us our perks, whatever it is, credit.
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Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.
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People have accused me of only working with good companies. No I don't. I work with some very dysfunctional companies or unbelievably dysfunctional organizations. The people that bring me in know what they're doing won't work for the future. They know they want to change and they want to change for the right reasons. They believe what I believe and that's why they called me.
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We invest in things like the future, like our children, like education. In other words, we invest in things that we understand we will not see an immediate return of investment but everybody knows it will have a positive impact and you can easily measure it over the course of time. Your why is exactly the same thing.
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Taking a job for the cash is not as important as taking a job for the joy.
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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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The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.
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Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.
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No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
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Good marketing offers us a view of the world. Bad marketing offers us a product to buy.
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Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.
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Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back
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Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.
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There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
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The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
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True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.
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I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.
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Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.
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Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.
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Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.
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When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.