Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.
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We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.
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When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.
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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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All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.
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All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.
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I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.
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The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
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Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.
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Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders—in that order.
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It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know.
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We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
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Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.
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The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
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The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
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Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there
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Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
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Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.
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When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.
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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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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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We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.
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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.