Simon Sinek
American author and speaker on leadership, born 1973
58 quotes.
Quotes by Simon Sinek
- A boss has the title, a leader has the people.
- A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.
- A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
- A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.
- As the Zen Buddhist saying goes, how you do anything is how you do everything.
- Authenticity is when you say and do the things you actually believe.
- Building trust requires nothing more than telling the truth.
- Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.
- Excitement comes from the achievement. Fulfillment comes from the journey that got us there.
- Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.
- Great companies don't hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them.
- Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.
- If we don’t understand people, we don’t understand business.
- If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.
- If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- In order to stand out, we have to know what we stand for.
- Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle.
- Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they’re crazy.
- Integrity is when our words and deeds are consistent with our intentions.
- Intelligence strives to know the answer, wisdom strives to know why the answer matters.
- Intelligence uses what is known to solve problems. Creativity uses what is unknown to discover possibilities.
- 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.
- Leaders take the risk to trust first.
- Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
- Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.
- Leadership is not a license to do less; it is a responsibility to do more.
- Leadership is not a rank or position to be attained. Leadership is a service to be given.
- Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.
- Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.
- Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.
- Life changes for the better when we realize that we don’t have to know everything and we don’t have to pretend that we do.
- Loyalty is the desire to defend someone when they are not there to defend themselves.
- Most of us live our lives by accident – we live it as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.
- No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
- Optimism is the ability to focus on where we’re going, not where we’re coming from.
- Passion alone can’t cut it. For passion to survive it needs structure. A why without how has little probability of success.
- People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.
- Strong leaders earn loyalty. Weak leaders demand it.
- Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.