"What you do is proof of what you believe."
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Simon Sinek quotes (page 4 of 27)
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"When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you."
"The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges."
"Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination."
"Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there"
"Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are."
"A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first."
"Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean."
"We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better."
"I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me."
"The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others."
"When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance."
"A boss who micromanages is like a coach who wants to get in the game. Leaders guide and support and then sit back to cheer from the sidelines."
"Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced."
"We very often confuse personality with leadership."
"Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic."
"If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start."
"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."
"Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place."
"If you sell what you do, you're a vendor. If you sell why you do it, you're a brand."