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"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?"
"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."
"You have to have a patience for college."
"If somebody wants to learn their why, either you help them or send them over to their course. All of this stuff helps."
"My job is to preach and preach and preach."
"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."
"You have to have a patience for exercise."
"People have accused me of only working with good companies. No I don't. I work with some very dysfunctional companies or unbelievably dysfunctional organizations. The people that bring me in know what they're doing won't work for the future. They know they want to change and they want to change for the right reasons. They believe what I believe and that's why they called me."
"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."
"What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication."
"What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book."
"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."
"I put messages out there that start with why and they talk about what I believe. They go on to demonstrate and give examples. If it resonates with others, those with whom it resonates will share it with their friends and say, "This inspired me. You should watch it. You should read this.""
"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."
"People who believe I'm an idiot don't hire me and they don't call."
"Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking."
"We pursue exercise even though empirically we see no benefit from the energy we're spending and we're hurting. So empirically we should quit. The why is exactly the same thing. You persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty."
"Of course there are people out there who are helping others find their why. Some are doing a really great job and some are doing a not so great job. I love the fact there are people out there, and consultants out there doing that."