Simon Sinek Quotes
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If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.
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No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.
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Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.
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True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.
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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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When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.
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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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It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.
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Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
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Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.
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There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
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Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more
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Disney became hated. It became one of the evil corporations. It used to be loved. They couldn't hold onto talent; they couldn't attract talent. Some of their products did badly. The Californialand project was a $5 billion waste of money. They couldn't make it work. The magic had gone, no pun intended.
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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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Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get
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I was never a writer.
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Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.
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Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.
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Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.
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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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We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected.
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The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.
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Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.
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There are leaders, and there are those who lead. Leaders are those who hold a position of power or authority. But those who lead are those who inspire us. And it's those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.