Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
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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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Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.
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The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.
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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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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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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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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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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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Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
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More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.
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I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.
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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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I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.
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Good marketing speaks to human beings - the way human beings understand and take in information.
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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.