Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.
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There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.
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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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What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
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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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Taking a job for the cash is not as important as taking a job for the joy.
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Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.
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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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Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.
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I'm interested in the left side of the Bell Curve.
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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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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
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When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.
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Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
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A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
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We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.
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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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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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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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We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.
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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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Every company knows what they do Some know how they do it Very few know why
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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.