Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.
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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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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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The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.
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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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We should all have an opportunity to feel a part of something not just have a part in something.
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Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle
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New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them
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Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.
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Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.
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Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.
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When a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees.
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Progress is more important than perfection.
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Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.
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Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more
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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 have to have an impact. That's what drives me to practice to make sure my words are clear and my stories are compelling. Right. Because it matters.
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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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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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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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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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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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If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.