Simon Sinek Quotes
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When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.
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I'm interested in the left side of the Bell Curve.
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No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.
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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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If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.
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If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.
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A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.
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When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.
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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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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. How can I help somebody I care about find the job they love? How can I help somebody I care about find happiness in their work? And when we commit to service it actually biologically and anthropologically is more likely to lead to our own success and our own happiness.
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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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Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.
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Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.
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Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.
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If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.
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The value we provide most to others is the same value we appreciate most from others.
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I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
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Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination.
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I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.
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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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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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We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see.
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The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.
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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.