Simon Sinek Quotes
I never imagined I'd be working with government, or military or politicians or big companies. None of this stuff I'm doing was on any business plan anywhere ever.
If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.
If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.
We think that we all have to like each other before we trust each other and that necessarily is not the case.
A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.
If you go to the gym and you come home and look into the mirror, you'll see nothing. If you go the next day and you come home, you will see nothing. In fact sometimes you're in pain.
When you show up to speak publically, you have to show up to give. You always know the ones who do and the ones who don't.
What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.
I don't hire any companies or ask any of my friends to write reviews for me on Amazon when I have a book come out so they can drive up my ratings on Amazon. I don't have a publicist.
I was a nobody when I met with the publisher. Nobody knew who I was. I was doing some speaking for entrepreneurs. I did little groups. I had no following.
If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.
I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.
What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.
If somebody wants to learn their why, either you help them or send them over to their course. All of this stuff helps.
When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.
A star wants to see himself rise to the top.A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.
Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy.
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.
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.
Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.
Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that's obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right.
The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.
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.
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, sweat, and tears.
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.
A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.