Simon Sinek Quotes
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Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.
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Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders—in that order.
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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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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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Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.
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A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.
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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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We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.
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I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.
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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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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
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Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
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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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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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The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'
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The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.
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Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.
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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.
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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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If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.
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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 become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.