Simon Sinek Quotes
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Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
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A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
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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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Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.
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We pursue exercise even though empirically we see no benefit from the energy we're spending and we're hurting. So empirically we should quit. The why is exactly the same thing. You persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty.
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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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All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.
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Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.
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Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.
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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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Too many people write books as a calling card.
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You have to have a patience for relationships.
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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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It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.
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Usually what happens is somebody grabs me and they always pull me off to the side. Nobody ever does it publically. They say, "I didn't want to be here." Or, "I don't usually like people like you." Or, "I didn't believe the things you actually talked about would work. I'm here to tell you that you converted me." That happens a lot.
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Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.
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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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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.
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The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.
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Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.
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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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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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I cannot tell you how long it takes for your exercise to work. If you haven't seen any results in a year or six months you're doing something wrong.
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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?