Simon Sinek Quotes
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Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.
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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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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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We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.
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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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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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Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there
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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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Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.
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Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
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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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Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
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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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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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We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
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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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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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What I'm doing is obeying the law of diffusion of innovations.
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Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
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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'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
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We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.