Simon Sinek Quotes
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Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.
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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.
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Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.
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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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Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.
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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
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Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.
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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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TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
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A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence.
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The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees.
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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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Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle
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We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.
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To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.
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Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
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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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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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I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot. I'm interested in how do I inspire the people who are open-minded that there's a different way of seeing the world.
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We should all have an opportunity to feel a part of something not just have a part in something.
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There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.
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We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future.
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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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Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.