Simon Sinek Quotes
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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 go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.
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It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.
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We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.
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I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.
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And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader’s vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.
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A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.
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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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The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.
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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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It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.
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I've been dogmatic to use myself as a case study.
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The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.
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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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The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.
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All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.
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Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.
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The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.
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I never imagined I'd write a book.
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The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success
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Good marketing speaks to human beings - the way human beings understand and take in information.
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I never set out to do the things I'm doing now.
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Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.
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Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.