Simon Sinek Quotes
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Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.
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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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Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.
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Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.
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Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.
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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.
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My job is to preach and preach and preach.
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To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.
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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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What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
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Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.
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The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.
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There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.
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Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.
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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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I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following.
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If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.
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True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.
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People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?
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Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get
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Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.
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I never wanted to be a public speaker.
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The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
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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.