Simon Sinek
Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.Collection: Book
I would never find myself or unlikely to find myself in a room where I have a skeptic who brought me in. But I very often am in a situation somebody who's there who didn't invite me was a skeptic. That happens all the time.Collection: Rooms
I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.Collection: Innovators
People who believe I'm an idiot don't hire me and they don't call.Collection: Believe
If somebody wants to learn their why, either you help them or send them over to their course. All of this stuff helps.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Jobs
The ones who show up to take, they show up and say, "Hi. My name is Steve. I'm an expert in this and I've studied this and I've worked with these clients." On every single power point presentation, it has their email, their Twitter handle and their Facebook account, so you can follow them. At the end, they tell you, "Please follow me." When you ask them a question, they say, "Well, I could tell you the answer, but you should really just read my book."Collection: Book
When you show up to speak publically, you have to show up to give. You always know the ones who do and the ones who don't.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Book
What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.Collection: 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.Collection: Entrepreneur
I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.Collection: Knows
You have to have a patience for exercise.Collection: Exercise
You have to have a patience for college.Collection: College
My job is to preach and preach and preach.Collection: Jobs
I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.Collection: Marketing
If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.Collection: Rooms
Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.Collection: Dream
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.Collection: Leadership
Work with people who believe what you believe.Collection: Believe
Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: Jobs
A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.Collection: Jobs
A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.Collection: Team
Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.Collection: Leader
Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.Collection: Real
Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.Collection: Shows
There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.Collection: Two
Be the leader you wish you had.Collection: Leader
Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.Collection: Responsibility
We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.Collection: Lasts
What you do is proof of what you believe.Collection: Believe
Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.Collection: Self Confidence
When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.Collection: Want
When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.Collection: Progress
We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.Collection: Dream
Offer your strengths to others and you'll be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you.Collection: People
Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.Collection: Achievement
Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.Collection: Stress
People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe.Collection: People
The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.Collection: Leadership
Don’t give to get. Give to inspire others to give.Collection: Giving