Simon Sinek Quotes
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Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.
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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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A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence.
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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 rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.
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We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
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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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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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The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
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Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there
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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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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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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 trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
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Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.
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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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Our courage comes from the courage of others.
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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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Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.
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What I say is join me and be part of the army and find ways that maybe even I haven't thought of I haven't even thought of to help spread this message and inspire people to do what inspires them. That's what I need you to do.
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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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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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Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.