Simon Sinek Quotes
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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 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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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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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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Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.
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We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.
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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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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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It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know.
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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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Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.
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In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.
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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 have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.
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Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.
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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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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've been dogmatic to use myself as a case study.
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Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle
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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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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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Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
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The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees.
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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.