Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.
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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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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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It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.
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During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.
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People have accused me of only working with good companies. No I don't. I work with some very dysfunctional companies or unbelievably dysfunctional organizations. The people that bring me in know what they're doing won't work for the future. They know they want to change and they want to change for the right reasons. They believe what I believe and that's why they called me.
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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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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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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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Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
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My job is to preach and preach and preach.
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The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.
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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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Every one of us has the capacity to lead.
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The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishab le.
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Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.
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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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So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.
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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 value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
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Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.
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Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
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Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.