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Simon Sinek Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“If we be good we will do great.
If we do good we will be great.”
— Simon Sinek
Tagged: Greatness, Do Good, Success, Leadership, qualities
“People don't buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it. A failure to communicate WHY creates nothing but stress or doubt.”
— Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Tagged: People, mentality, purcahse, decision, Reason, Communication, Trust, Sales
“To lead requires those who willingly follow. It requires those who believe in something bigger than a single issue. To inspire starts with the clarity of WHY.”
— Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Tagged: Lead, leader, Followers, Belief, inspiration, Willingness
“What good is having a belly if there is no fire in it. Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work!”
— Simon Sinek
Tagged: Fire, Taking Action, execution, motivation, inspiration, act, Passion
“Accountability is hard. Blame is easy. One builds trust the other destroys it.”
— Simon Sinek
Tagged: accountability, Blame, Responsibility, Trust
“Leadership is not a journey to rise in the ranks. Leadership is a journey to help those around us rise.”
— Simon Sinek, via twitter.com
Tagged: Leadership, definition of leadership
“A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.”
— Simon Sinek
Tagged: leader, Leadership, inspiration
“The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.”
— Simon Sinek
Tagged: Progress, Goals, Small Steps, becoming better, Improvement, Growth
“Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.”
— Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Tagged: leader, Leadership, Innovation, Taking Action
“There are two ways to build a career or a business. We can go through life hunting and pecking, looking for opportunities or customers, hoping that something connects. Or we can go through life with intention, knowing what our piece looks like, knowing our WHY, and going straight to the places we ft.”
— Simon Sinek, Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
Tagged: Career, building a career, opportunities, approach, Reason, purpose, why, Intention, Clarity
“There are leaders and there are those who lead.
Leaders hold a position of power or influence.
Those who lead inspire us.

Whether individuals or organizations, 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.”
— Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Tagged: Leadership, qualities, leader, inspire, follow, influence
“Fulfillment isn't another word for happiness. All kinds of things make us happy at work: hitting a goal, getting a promotion, landing a new client, completing a project, the list goes on. But happiness is temporary; the feeling doesn't last. Nobody walks around energized by the memory of a goal hit twelve months ago. That intensity passes with time.

Fulfillment is deeper. Fulfillment lasts. The difference between happiness and fulfillment is the difference between liking something and loving something.”
— Simon Sinek, Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
Tagged: Fulfillment, Happiness, purpose, Memory
“The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few and ended up helping many.”
— Simon Sinek, via twitter.com
Tagged: Ideas, best ideas, common good, Helping Others
“Strong relationships, at home or work, are based on trust and communication. But if there is no communication there will be no trust.”
— Simon Sinek, via twitter.com
Tagged: Relationships, strong relationships, Communication, Trust, Human Connection, trust and communication
“Every CEO on the planet knows that people are important, but not enough put their people first, - a little rant.”
— Simon Sinek, via twitter.com
Tagged: CEO, CEOs, Companies, Corporations
“A movement only exits when people are willing to move, inspired to follow in a direction a leader points.”
— Simon Sinek
Tagged: Move, Start, inspiration, leader, leading
“It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.”
— Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Tagged: Leadership, Management, making people great, Success, Teamwork, Business
“I had a good year last year, but am I successful? And the answer is no, I don't feel I am. Because I'm trying to build a world that doesn't exist yet.”
— Simon Sinek, "DON'T Set Your Goals REALISTICALLY!"- Simon Sinek (@simonsinek)
Tagged: Goals, Rescue, Success
“Without action, we have only words.”
— Simon Sinek, via twitter.com
Tagged: actions, Words, Words & Actions, Actions Over Words
“People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.”
— Simon Sinek, How great leaders inspire action
Tagged: Marketing, Media Cliff Notes
“We can make up for lost money but we can't make up for lost time.”
— Simon Sinek, via twitter.com
Tagged: Lost Time, lost money, money and time, Life, live fully
“The difference between vision and a goal is the finish line.

A goal is 26.2 miles. You can simply count the metrics and know when you've completed your goal.

A vision is having a crystal clear sense of what the finish line looks like, but no idea of how far away it is.”
— Simon Sinek, "DON'T Set Your Goals REALISTICALLY!"- Simon Sinek (@simonsinek)
Tagged: Vision, goal, perseverance, Clarity, Mindset
“Fulfillment is a right and not a privilege. Every single one of us is entitled to feel fulfilled by the work we do, to wake up feeling inspired to go to work, to feel safe when we're there and to return home with a sense that we contributed to something larger than ourselves. Fulfillment is not a lottery. It is not a feeling reserved for a lucky few who get to say, "I love what I do.”
— Simon Sinek, Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
Tagged: Fulfillment, Fulfilling, inspiration, Work, purpose
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