Simon Sinek Quotes
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True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.
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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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Usually what happens is somebody grabs me and they always pull me off to the side. Nobody ever does it publically. They say, "I didn't want to be here." Or, "I don't usually like people like you." Or, "I didn't believe the things you actually talked about would work. I'm here to tell you that you converted me." That happens a lot.
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Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
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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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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 don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.
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The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
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No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
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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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Taking a job for the cash is not as important as taking a job for the joy.
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Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.
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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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Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.
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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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Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.
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Too many people write books as a calling card.
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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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Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.
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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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I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.
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I cannot tell you how long it takes for your exercise to work. If you haven't seen any results in a year or six months you're doing something wrong.
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What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.
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The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.