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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Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.
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It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.
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Words may inspire but only action creates change.
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I'm pretty confident the why works now. When it first began, somebody said to me: "Will this work in big business?" I said, "I don't know. Let's try." Somebody said will this work in entrepreneurs, relationships or government and military. I said, "I don't know. Let's try." I kept applying the scientific method. I had a theory. I kept applying that theory, looking for opportunities to fail and it kept working.
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Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is.
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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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It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.
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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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The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.
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Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.
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The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.
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I never set out to do the things I'm doing now.
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When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
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People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe.
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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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Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!
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The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.
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We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.
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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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I don't care about preaching to the converted.
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Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.
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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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A group of followers has strength because of its numbers. A following has power because of its beliefs.