Simon Sinek Quotes
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Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more
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A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
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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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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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Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.
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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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A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.
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Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.
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Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
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Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.
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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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We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.
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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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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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I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does. What starts to happen is like exercise, the pain goes away. It starts to get easier and the weight starts to get lighter and people start to notice a difference in you and you start to notice a difference in yourself. You find your ability to make decisions is easier; you find you are inspired more often. You find your success increases. You find that your random moments when you're in the flow are no longer random and you can control them. Other people notice the difference.
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Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.
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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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Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.
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Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.
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Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.
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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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Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.
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Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.
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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.