Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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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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Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.
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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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Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
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When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit.
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Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.
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Disney is one of the best hotel companies in the world. Yet they have never and will never open a casino on the Vegas strip.
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Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.
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We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.
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Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.
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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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Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.
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What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.
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Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.
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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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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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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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I've been dogmatic to use myself as a case study.
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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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Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.
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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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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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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.