Simon Sinek Quotes
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A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.
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Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.
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Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.
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Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.
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I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a book come out so they can drive up my ratings on Amazon. I don't have a publicist.
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We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.
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You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea.
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Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
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I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.
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We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.
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If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.
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Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
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I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
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Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.
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When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit.
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Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.
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I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.
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Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.
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We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
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Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
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We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.
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The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.
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Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.