Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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I never wanted to be a public speaker.
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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.
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A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
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It's important to slow down, every now and then, for no other reason than to call someone to say 'Hi.' It doesn't have to be a long conversation. Just calling out of the blue does more to let someone know you still care about them than nearly anything else.
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You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.
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I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.
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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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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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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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You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.
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Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.
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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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Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.
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Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.
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If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.
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I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.
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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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If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
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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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When you show up to speak publically, you have to show up to give. You always know the ones who do and the ones who don't.
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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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If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.
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The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.