Simon Sinek Quotes
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What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.
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Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination.
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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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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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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. How can I help somebody I care about find the job they love? How can I help somebody I care about find happiness in their work? And when we commit to service it actually biologically and anthropologically is more likely to lead to our own success and our own happiness.
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The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.
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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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There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
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The value we provide most to others is the same value we appreciate most from others.
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If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.
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We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.
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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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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 put messages out there that start with why and they talk about what I believe. They go on to demonstrate and give examples. If it resonates with others, those with whom it resonates will share it with their friends and say, "This inspired me. You should watch it. You should read this."
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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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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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Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.
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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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If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.
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I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
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My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?
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You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.
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The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
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Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.