Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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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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A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.
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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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When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.
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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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A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
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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 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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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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If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.
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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'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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I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.
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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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Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.
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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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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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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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I don't care about preaching to the converted.
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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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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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Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
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A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.