Simon Sinek Quotes
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I don't care about preaching to the converted.
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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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A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.
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Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.
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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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It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
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Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
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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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Focus on where you're going and you'll know what steps to take. Focus on the steps you're taking and you won't know where you're going.
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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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Offer your strengths to others and you'll be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you.
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My job is to preach and preach and preach.
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A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
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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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Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.
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Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.
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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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The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
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You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.
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Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.
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A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.
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Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels. The best decisions look and feel right.
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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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Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.