Simon Sinek Quotes
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I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.
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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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I never imagined I'd be working with government, or military or politicians or big companies. None of this stuff I'm doing was on any business plan anywhere ever.
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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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I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.
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Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.
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What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.
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To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
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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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Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
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A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.
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Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.
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A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
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Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.
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A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
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Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.
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No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
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Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
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Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.
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A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.
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Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.
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I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.
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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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The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.