Simon Sinek Quotes
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The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.
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I'm a messenger. I'm one piece of a giant jigsaw puzzle.
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A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.
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Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.
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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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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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A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
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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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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 don't care about preaching to the converted.
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Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
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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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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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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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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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I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.
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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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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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Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
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Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.
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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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Good marketing offers us a view of the world. Bad marketing offers us a product to buy.
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Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.