Simon Sinek Quotes
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Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.
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Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.
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Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
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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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Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
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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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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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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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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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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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Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.
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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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When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit.
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Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.
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Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.
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We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.
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In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
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Good marketing speaks to human beings - the way human beings understand and take in information.
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Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.
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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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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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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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If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.