Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
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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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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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You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.
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Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
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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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Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.
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Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.
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Every one of us has the capacity to lead.
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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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So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.
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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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It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.
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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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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 value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
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The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.
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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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Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.
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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.