Simon Sinek Quotes
-
We think that we all have to like each other before we trust each other and that necessarily is not the case.
-
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.
-
I'm simply following the journey.
-
Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.
-
Every company knows what they do Some know how they do it Very few know why
-
There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.
-
Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.
-
Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.
-
What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
-
Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.
-
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.
-
Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.
-
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.
-
Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.
-
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.
-
I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get to or who are implementing the work and helping people actually learn their why or practice their why or implement their why because I don't do that.
-
Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.
-
If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for
-
Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.
-
People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm very prescriptive about who I work with.