Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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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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One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
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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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To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
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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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We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.
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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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You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.
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I'm very prescriptive about who I work with.
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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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A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
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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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What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
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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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Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.
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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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Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.
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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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Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.
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It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.
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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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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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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.