Top 100 Simon Sinek Quotes
#1. 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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#2. The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
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#3. Never opt for change simply to leave something you don't like. Change works best when you go toward something, even if it is the unknown.
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#4. Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.
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#5. Progress is more important than perfection.
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#6. Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.
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#7. Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.
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#8. Those who lead are able to do so because those who follow trust that the decisions made at the top have the best interest of the group at heart.
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#9. Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.
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#10. I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.
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#11. Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.
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#12. The value we provide most to others is the same value we appreciate most from others.
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#13. Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.
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#14. The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.
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#15. When people know WHY you do WHAT you do, they are willing to give you credit for everything that could serve as proof of WHY.
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#16. Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.
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#17. Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even if the possibility of loss exists.
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#18. Our strength will come not from the sharpness of our spears, but from our willingness to offer others the protection of our shields.
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#19. There is not a single one of us with a job that is not completely reliant in some way shape or form on others.
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#20. Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.
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#21. We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.
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#22. We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.
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#23. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.
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#24. Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.
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#25. If the people aren't looking out for the community, then the benefits of a community erode. Many companies have star employees and star salesmen and so on, but few have a culture that produces great people as a rule and not an exception.
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#26. Look down from as high as possible. Look ahead as far as you can see. Then decide what to do.
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#27. If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.
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#28. Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.
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#29. Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
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#30. The lack of a clear set of values and beliefs, along with the weak culture that resulted, created the conditions for an every-man-for-himself environment, the long-term impact of which could yield little else than disaster. This is caveman stuff.
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#31. Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.
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#32. Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired.
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#33. If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.
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#34. True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work.
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#35. Every company knows what they do
Some know how they do it
Very few know why
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#36. The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
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#37. Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.
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#38. Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.
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#39. Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.
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#40. There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.
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#41. Don't forget, the superior Betamax technology did not beat out the substandard VHS technology as the standard format for videotape in the 1980s.
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#42. If they had started their sales pitch with WHY the product existed in the first place, the product itself would have become the proof of the higher cause - proof of WHY.
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#43. If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.
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#44. My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?
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#45. When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.
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#46. It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.
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#47. A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.
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#48. The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.
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#49. Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.
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#50. Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.
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#51. You have to be careful what you think you know.
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#52. If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
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#53. Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there
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#54. 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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#55. Leaders who fail are the ones who do it by themselves. Leaders who succeed are the ones who allow others to help them.
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#56. It is a leader's job instead to take responsibility for the success of each member of his crew. It is the leader's job to ensure that they are well trained and feel confident to perform their duties. To give them responsibility and hold them accountable to advance the mission.
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#57. We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.
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#58. I know there's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. And if you ask me if I feel successful, the honest answer is 'not yet.'
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#59. A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.
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#60. A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
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#61. Every one of us has the capacity to lead.
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#62. Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.
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#63. Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.
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#64. Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.
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#65. What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
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#66. I'm very prescriptive about who I work with. I'm very clear about what I believe. If they believe what I believe I will work with them. If they say things like, "Convince me we should do this." I walk away.
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#67. We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.
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#68. That's a remarkable concept: only when individuals can trust the culture or organization will they take personal risks in order to advance that culture or organization as a whole.
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#69. When the people have to manage dangers from inside the organization, the organization itself becomes less able to face the dangers from outside.
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#70. 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.
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#71. 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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#73. 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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#74. Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.
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#75. A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.
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#76. For great leaders, The Golden Circle is in balance. They are in pursuit of WHY, they hold themselves accountable to HOW they do it and WHAT they do serves as the tangible proof of what they believe.
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#77. The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success
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#78. I know of no case study in history that describes an organization that has been managed out of a crisis. Every single one of them was led.
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#79. A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.
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#80. Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.
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#81. Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.
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#82. Courage isn't inside; it's external. It comes from someone else telling you they believe in you.
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#83. Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.
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#84. Taking a job for the cash is not as important as taking a job for the joy.
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#85. The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.
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#86. 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.
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#87. I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.
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#88. It's worth repeating: people don't buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.
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#89. Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
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#90. Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.
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#91. 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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#92. 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.
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#93. True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.
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#94. Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can't see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.
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#95. That's the problem with love; we only know when we've found it because it just feels right.
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#96. Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
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#97. Leaders are the ones who are willing to give up something of their own for us. Their time, their energy, their money, maybe even the food off their plate. When it matters, leaders choose to eat last.
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#98. When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.
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#100. Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.
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