Simon Sinek Quotes
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Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.
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Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
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Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.
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Most politicians are not authentic.
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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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A group of followers has strength because of its numbers. A following has power because of its beliefs.
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Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.
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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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Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.
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Focus on where you're going and you'll know what steps to take. Focus on the steps you're taking and you won't know where you're going.
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The responsibility of the company is to help the people, grow as people. If we can do that, then the company will grow as a company.
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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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Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.
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Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.
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Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
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Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.
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When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer a short term loss or you may lose out on some short term gain. But in the long run it's way more powerful and way more stable.
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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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To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
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My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?
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The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.
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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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It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
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If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.