Simon Sinek Quotes
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Work with people who believe what you believe.
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Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.
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The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.
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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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When you start with why, which decision you make becomes very easy. It is so hard to do when you may suffer a short term loss or you may lose out on some short term gain. But in the long run it's way more powerful and way more stable.
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What is a company that believes in good, clean family entertainment doing making R-rated pictures.
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A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
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Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right
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My challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible. My why is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them so that together we can change our world. That's why I wake up every single day. I'm agnostic to the form it takes: I teach, I write, I speak, I advise.
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Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.
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If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.
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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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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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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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Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.
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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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The people who say,"What guarantee do I have?" I walk away. I'll get you later.
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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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It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.
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I don't care about preaching to the converted.
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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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Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
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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.