Simon Sinek Quotes
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We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
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There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.
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Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
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The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
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Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.
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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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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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Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
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Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.
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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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We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.
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I don't care about preaching to the converted.
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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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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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I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.
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I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
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When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.
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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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A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.
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I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.
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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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Our courage comes from the courage of others.
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For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.
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If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.