Simon Sinek Quotes
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I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.
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Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us.
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The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.
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When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.
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Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.
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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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There's only one why. You only have one why, and your why is fully formed by the time you're 17, 18 or 19years old, maybe even earlier. The rest of your life are simply opportunities to either live in or out of balance and the career choices we make and the decisions we make in our lives either put us in balance with our why, which makes us happy, fulfilled and inspired. Or it puts us out of our why, which makes us frustrated, stressed out and sometimes we fail.
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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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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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What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
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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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If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.
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Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.
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Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
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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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Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.
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Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.
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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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We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.
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Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.
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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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I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
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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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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.