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Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Creativity Innovation Leadership

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Choice Leadership Rank

Great companies don`t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something better than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you`ll be stuck with whoever`s left.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Leadership Motivational

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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Business Job Money Vision Work

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Passion Work Life Balance

Working hard for something we do not care about is called stress, working hard for something we love is called passion.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Business Management Passion Productivity

Cowards...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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Failure Future

Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that's obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Responsibility

People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Entrepreneurship Marketing

Empathy is not something we offer to our customers or our employees from nine to five... (it) is... a second by second, minute by minute service that [we] owe to everyone if [we] want to call [ourselves] a leader.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Empathy

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Inspiration Play Work

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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Goal Believe People

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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Failure Eye Better

If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Leader Great Help

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Goals Reality Think

Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Work Time 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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Leader Help Others Job

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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Money Job Believe

Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do.'

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Love Day Home

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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek World Performance Company

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Mother Gift People

I love science fiction - always have.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Love Fiction Always

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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Good Best Team

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Good Curiosity I Am

Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Best Mind Champion

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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Good Relax Video Games

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Leadership Leader Vision

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Good Best Friend Leader

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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Day End Enjoy

If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Life Opportunity You

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Friendship Friend

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Generation Election Next

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Thinking Acting Way

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Action Against Guarding

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Cost Self Interest

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Confidence Humility

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Sacrifice People Numbers

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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Culture Strong Society

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.

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Time Short People

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek Best Better Measure
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