Simon Sinek Quotes
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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.
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A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
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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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Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.
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Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
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Taking a job for the cash is not as important as taking a job for the joy.
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I'm very prescriptive about who I work with.
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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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Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.
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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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Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.
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Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.
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I'm interested in the left side of the Bell Curve.
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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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What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
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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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We think that we all have to like each other before we trust each other and that necessarily is not the case.
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We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.
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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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The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.
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We are all so preoccupied with ourselves. How can I get happy, how can I find the job I love, how can I become a millionaire, how can lose weight. Yet, the reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things.
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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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It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.
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A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.