Simon Sinek Quotes
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Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.
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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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I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.
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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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In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.
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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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It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.
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A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.
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Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.
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When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success.
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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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I never imagined I'd write a book.
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A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.
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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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The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.
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Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.
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WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?
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I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.
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I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.
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If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.
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A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.
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Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.
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No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
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The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.