Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.
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If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.
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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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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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Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.
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Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.
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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 trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
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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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Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.
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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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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 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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Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.
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I'm very prescriptive about who I work with. I'm very clear about what I believe. If they believe what I believe I will work with them. If they say things like, "Convince me we should do this." I walk away.
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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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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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I've been dogmatic to use myself as a case study.
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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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The ones who show up to take, they show up and say, "Hi. My name is Steve. I'm an expert in this and I've studied this and I've worked with these clients." On every single power point presentation, it has their email, their Twitter handle and their Facebook account, so you can follow them. At the end, they tell you, "Please follow me." When you ask them a question, they say, "Well, I could tell you the answer, but you should really just read my book."
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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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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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Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.