Simon Sinek Quotes
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Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.
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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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To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.
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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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I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.
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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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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've been dogmatic to use myself as a case study.
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Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.
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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.
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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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Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.
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I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.
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Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.