Simon Sinek Quotes
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I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
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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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New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them
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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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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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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.
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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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I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.
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Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there
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Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
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We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
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I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.
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Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.
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The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
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Progress is more important than perfection.
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We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.
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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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Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.
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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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And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader’s vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.
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True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work.
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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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The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.
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I've been dogmatic to use myself as a case study.