Simon Sinek Quotes
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All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.
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If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
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The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.
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Progress is more important than perfection.
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If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.
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The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
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Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.
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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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Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.
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It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.
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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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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 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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Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others youre better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.
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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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Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.
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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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The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.
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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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Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we 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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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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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.