Simon Sinek Quotes
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What I say is join me and be part of the army and find ways that maybe even I haven't thought of I haven't even thought of to help spread this message and inspire people to do what inspires them. That's what I need you to do.
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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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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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Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.
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Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.
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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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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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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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Good marketing offers us a view of the world. Bad marketing offers us a product to buy.
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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 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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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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Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.
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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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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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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
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Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle
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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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True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work.
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When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.
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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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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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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.