Simon Sinek Quotes - Page 15

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• All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.

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  Giving, Ceramics, Roles

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.68, Penguin

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• People don't buy what you do; they buy what you stand for.

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  People, Marketing, Great Marketing

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• You have to be careful what you think you know.

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  Thinking, Be Careful, You Think You Know

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.19, Penguin

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• The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

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  Important, Desire, Like You

  "Fitting In: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

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  Humble, Pie, Appreciate

  "Humble Pie: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Personality, Leader

  "Don't Be So Tough: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

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  Kindness, Luxury, Honor

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

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• It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.

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  Player, People, Leader

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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• I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot.

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  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: advisor.tv

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• Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?

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  Running, Unique, Two

  "A Warning To Kraft Foods: Eat Cadbury’s And You’ll Get Indigestion" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Pain, Home, Mirrors

  Source: advisor.tv

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• All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. Those who forget WHY they were founded show up to the race every day to outdo someone else instead of to outdo themselves. The pursuit, for those who lose sight of WHY they are running the race, is for the medal or to beat someone else.

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  Running, Race, Sight

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.224, Penguin

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• Courage isn't inside; it's external. It comes from someone else telling you they believe in you.

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  Believe, Believe In You

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• It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.

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  Ideas, Long, Progress

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Apr 20, 2015

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• True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

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  Strength, Being Strong, Courage

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2012

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• If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

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  Average, Care, Matter

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• It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

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  Winning, Organization, Ideas

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• If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.

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  Impact, Movement, Ifs

  Twitter post from Aug 03, 2010

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• A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.

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  True Friend, Protocol, True Friend Is

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2011

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• Good marketing offers us a view of the world. Bad marketing offers us a product to buy.

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  Views, Marketing, World

  Twitter post from Dec 21, 2011

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• Every company knows what they do
  Some know how they do it
  Very few know why

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  Company, Know How, Knows

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• You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.

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  Believe

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2010

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• Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.

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  Asking, Answers, Asks

  Twitter post from Feb 09, 2012

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• 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.

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  Mother, People, Doe

  "How To Spend Your Time: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.

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  Numbers, People, Networking

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2013

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