Simon Sinek Quotes
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If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.
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No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
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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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Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.
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Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.
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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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Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.
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There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.
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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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Taking a job for the cash is not as important as taking a job for the joy.
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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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There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.
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We pursue exercise even though empirically we see no benefit from the energy we're spending and we're hurting. So empirically we should quit. The why is exactly the same thing. You persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty.
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We are all so preoccupied with ourselves. How can I get happy, how can I find the job I love, how can I become a millionaire, how can lose weight. Yet, the reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things.
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Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.
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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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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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Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.
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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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Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
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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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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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Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination.
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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.