Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
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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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Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.
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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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Follow those who follow something bigger than themselves - an idea, a belief, a vision, a cause. Run away from those who say we need to follow them.
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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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Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
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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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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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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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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 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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If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.
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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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Our courage comes from the courage of others.
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A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.
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I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
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The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
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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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In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.
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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.