Simon Sinek Quotes
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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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A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.
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Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.
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If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.
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And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader’s vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.
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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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It's the discipline to understand that the things that might make you rich or things might make you famous are sometimes worth pursuing and sometimes are not.
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A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to.
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The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
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Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination.
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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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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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Disney is beloved again. They can now attract the talent again and they can hold onto the talent again. People trust them again. It's all return since they went back to the why.
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The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.
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We very often confuse personality with leadership.
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No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
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A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.
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Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
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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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All these companies that grew to any sizable proportions were all founded with a belief or a cause bigger than their products or services. It was their products or services that helped them bring that cause to life.
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Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
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The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.
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If somebody wants to learn their why, either you help them or send them over to their course. All of this stuff helps.
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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.