Simon Sinek Quotes
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Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us.
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You have to have a patience for relationships.
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Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things 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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Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.
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Words may inspire but only action creates change.
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Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.
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Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.
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How can you help the human race progress?
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What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.
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Follow those who follow something bigger than themselves - an idea, a belief, a vision, a cause. Run away from those who say we need to follow them.
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Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.
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I don't care about preaching to the converted.
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All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.
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The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.
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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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A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
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Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.
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The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.
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Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.
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Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.
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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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The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.