Simon Sinek Quotes
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Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
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I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.
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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know.
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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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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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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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We should all have an opportunity to feel a part of something not just have a part in something.
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Our courage comes from the courage of others.
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If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.
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TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
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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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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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We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.
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It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not.
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The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.
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A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.
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Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.
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I've been dogmatic to use myself as a case study.
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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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Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.
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All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.