Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
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We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
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We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.
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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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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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Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.
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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
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Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.
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In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.
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If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.
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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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I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.
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Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.
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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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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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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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The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.
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Our courage comes from the courage of others.
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Being driven is not the same as being passionate. Passion is a love for the journey. Drive is a need to reach the destination.
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If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.
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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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It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know.
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I would never find myself or unlikely to find myself in a room where I have a skeptic who brought me in. But I very often am in a situation somebody who's there who didn't invite me was a skeptic. That happens all the time.