Simon Sinek Quotes And Sayings

A Friend Is An Emotional Bond, Just Like Friendship Is A Human Experience.

A Leader's Job Is Not To Do The Work For Others, It's To Help Others Figure Out How To Do It Themselves, To Get Things Done, And To Succeed Beyond What They Thought Possible.

There Is A Difference Between Listening And Waiting For Your Turn To Speak.

Pilots, To A Large Degree, Are Like Salesmen. They Have To Be Confident To Be Good At Their Jobs. They Have To Practice Relentlessly And Plan Out All The Scenarios Of The Things That Could Happen When They're Out There. Nothing Is More Important Than Preparation. They Are Also Mighty Competitive, Both As Individuals And As Squadrons.

Like A Good Parent Can't Also Be His Child's Best Friend, A Leader With Authority Requires Some Separation From Subordinates.

Great Leaders State Out Loud What They Intend To Do And In Doing So, They Get Things Done.

The Most Effective Leaders Are Actually Better At Guarding Against Danger When They Acknowledge It That It Exists. Cowards, In Contrast, Cling To The Hope That Failure Will Never Happen And May Be Sloppy In The Face Of Danger - Not Because They Don't Acknowledge That It Exists, But Because They Are Just Too Afraid Of It To Look It In The Eye.

Humility, I Have Learned, Must Never Be Confused With Meekness. Humility Is Being Open To The Ideas Of Others.

At The End Of The Day, Humans Are Social Animals And We Are At Our Best When We Get To Do Things With Others Who Appreciate And Enjoy What We Enjoy. It's What Keeps Us Human.

No Matter When Or Where, Always Bring Your 'A' Game, Because You Never Know When It Will Open Doors For You.

The Most Basic Human Desire Is To Feel Like You Belong. Fitting In Is Important.

The World Is A Bell Curve. Classroom Test Scores, Employee Performance In A Company Or How Many People Really, Really Like You. No Matter The Population You're Studying, They Always Fit Neatly Across The Standard Deviations Of The Famous Bell Curve.

The U.s. Constitution Protects Our Privacy From The Prying Eyes Of Government. It Does Not, However, Protect Us From The Prying Eyes Of Companies And Corporations.

Corporate Culture Matters. How Management Chooses To Treat Its People Impacts Everything - For Better Or For Worse.

The Irony Is, The Advertising Industry Knows Everyone Hates What They Produce. This Is Why They Keep Looking For New Ways To Force People To Stay Tuned.

When You Explain To People What You're Trying To Do, As Opposed To Just Making Demands Or Delegating Tasks, You Can Build Instant Trust, Even If It's Just For That Short Time You're On The Phone.

Offer Someone The Opportunity To Rebuild A Company Or Reinvent An Industry As The Primary Incentive, And It Will Attract Those Drawn To The Challenge First And The Money Second.

Spending Time With The Military Certainly Lends Itself To Some Remarkable Experiences, And I've Been Privileged To Have Had My Share.

The Lives We Live Are A Bit Of A Straight-hair Vs. Curly-hair Thing. We Often Want What We Don't Have. In Reality, It's Not About Better Or Worse; It's Just Perception.

When I Was In College, My School Newspaper Accepted An Ad From A Holocaust Revisionist Organization. This Would Have Been Offensive On Most College Campuses Across The Country, But I Went To A School With A Very Large Jewish Population, So The Ad, As You Might Expect, Stirred Absolute Outrage.

You'll Never See The President Carry His Own Luggage, And Why? Because Even Though We Know He Has Luggage, It Would Reduce His Stature If He Was Too Much Like Us. We Need To Think Of Our Leaders As Being Above Us, Even Though They Must Still Relate To Us.

Most Years, If You Were To Ask Me How Much I Make, The Genuine Answer Is That I Have No Clue. I Usually Find Out The Answer To That Question Once A Year, At Tax Time, When My Accountant Tells Me.

Halloween Is One Of My Favorite Days Of The Year. I Have A Strict Rule: I Don't Work On Halloween And I Won't Travel On Halloween. Not For Any Reason.

Don't Quit. Never Give Up Trying To Build The World You Can See, Even If Others Can't See It. Listen To Your Drum And Your Drum Only. It's The One That Makes The Sweetest Sound.

The Trick To Balance Is To Not Make Sacrificing Important Things Become The Norm.

Directions Are Instructions Given To Explain How. Direction Is A Vision Offered To Explain Why.

Spending Too Much Time Focused On Others' Strengths Leaves Us Feeling Weak. Focusing On Our Own Strengths Is What, In Fact, Makes Us Strong.

Bad Leaders Believe That They Have To Project Control At All Times.

Notoriously Outspoken, His Sentences Always Punctuated With Profanities, General George S. Patton Was The Epitome Of What A Leader Should Be Like - Or So He Thought. Patton Believed A Leader Should Look And Act Tough, So He Cultivated His Image And His Personality To Match His Philosophy.

Good Listeners Have A Huge Advantage. For One, When They Engage In Conversation, They Make People 'Feel' Heard. They 'Feel' That Someone Really Understands Their Wants, Needs And Desires. And For Good Reason; A Good Listener Does Care To Understand.

To Operate Based On Conviction And Belief Requires An Acceptance That Your Actions Could Get You Fired. This Is Different From Pig-headed Bravado, And It Is Different From Putting The Company At Risk.

Babe Ruth Was Not Afraid To Strike Out. And It Was This Fearlessness That Contributed To His Remarkable Career.

Though There Are Lessons That Can Be Learned About Becoming A Great Leader, Most Exist Inherently In The Bellies Of Those Who Lead.

We Can't All Be Good At Everything. This Is Partly The Logic Behind Having A Team In The First Place, So Each Role Can Be Filled With The Person Best Suited For That Role And Together, Every Job And Every Strength Is Covered.

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.

I Find, When You're An Optimist, Life Has A Funny Way Of Looking After You.

The Cost Of Leadership Is Self-interest.

When I Was A Kid, I Was A Bit Of A Space Geek. I Loved The Space Program And All Things Nasa. I Would Read Books About Our Solar System; I Had Pictures Of The Space Shuttle On My Bedroom Wall. And Yes, I Even Went To Space Camp.

Anyone Can Sell Product By Dropping Their Prices, But It Does Not Breed Loyalty.

To Become An Academic Expert Takes Years Of Studying. Academic Experts Are Experts In How And What Others Have Done. They Use Case Studies And Observation To Understand A Subject.

Republicans Are Completely Befuddled By Obama's 'Star Power' And Don't Seem To Have A Clear Or Effective Strategy To Compete.

If We Care About The Average Working American, Then Wal-mart Matters. A Lot.

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.

The Goal Is Not To Do Business With Everybody Who Needs What You Have. The Goal Is To Do Business With People Who Believe What You Believe.

I Have Been Inspired By Martin Luther King And How He Inspired A Movement. I Have Learned That A Cause Must Be Organic; If It Is To Have An Impact It Must Belong To Those Who Join The Movement And Not Those Who Lead It.

All The Great Organizations In The World, All Have A Sense Of Why That Organization Does What It Does.

The Quality Of A Leader Cannot Be Judged By The Answers He Gives, But By The Questions He Asks.

If You Can Clearly Articulate The Dream Or The Goal, Start.

In The Military, They Give Medals For People Who Are Willing To Sacrifice Themselves So That Others May Survive. In Business, We Give Bonuses To People Who Sacrifice Others.

People Don't Buy What You Do, They Buy Why You Do It.