Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.
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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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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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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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The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.
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A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.
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Good marketing speaks to human beings - the way human beings understand and take in information.
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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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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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Leadership is a choice to protect the person to the left of us, and protect the person to the right of us, and sometimes that may come at a cost. It may cost us our benefits, it may cost us our comfort, it may sometimes cost us our perks, whatever it is, credit.
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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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Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle
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Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.
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We pursue exercise even though empirically we see no benefit from the energy we're spending and we're hurting. So empirically we should quit. The why is exactly the same thing. You persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty.
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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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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 a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.
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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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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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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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Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.
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When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.
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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.