Simon Sinek Quotes
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Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination.
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I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
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What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.
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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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The value we provide most to others is the same value we appreciate most from others.
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We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives.
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Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.
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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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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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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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It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.
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Courage isn't inside; it's external. It comes from someone else telling you they believe in you.
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We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.
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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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Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.
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How can you help the human race progress?
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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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Too many people write books as a calling card.
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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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Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.
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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
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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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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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We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.