"Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right"
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Simon Sinek quotes (page 8 of 27)
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"We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others."
"Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible."
"A why has to be for others. It's something you give to the world. It's the reason your friends love you because this is the thing that you give them and it fulfills them. This is the reason your clients love you or your fans love you because you give them something. It's something to offer, that's what the why is."
"The future is only scary if we try to avoid it."
"When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen."
"Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do."
"Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities."
"Success always takes help. Failure is done alone."
"Success is when reality catches up to your imagination."
"What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world."
"We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see."
"Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got."
"Every one of us has the capacity to lead."
"Being driven is not the same as being passionate. Passion is a love for the journey. Drive is a need to reach the destination."
"We should all have an opportunity to feel a part of something not just have a part in something."
"Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why."
"If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority."
"No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud."
"Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities."