Simon Sinek
When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success.Collection: Morning
Let us not attack those who disagree. Let us defend those who follow.Collection: Disagree
Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.Collection: Numbers
The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.Collection: Work Out
What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.Collection: Impact
We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.Collection: Responsibility
If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.Collection: Want
Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.Collection: Helping
Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.Collection: Hate
The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them.Collection: Emotion
New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread themCollection: Flower
Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired.Collection: People
And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader’s vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.Collection: Responsibility
True love exists in business. It's when Employee and Employer are amazingly grateful to have each other. We should all have true love at work.Collection: Grateful
Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.Collection: Exercise
You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea.Collection: Believe
Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.Collection: Struggle
What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.Collection: Passion
To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.Collection: Acceptance
Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do. By WHY I mean your purpose, cause or belief - WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And WHY should anyone care?Collection: Life
Follow those who follow something bigger than themselves - an idea, a belief, a vision, a cause. Run away from those who say we need to follow them.Collection: Running
Words may inspire, but only ACTION creates change. Most of us live our lives by accident - we live life as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.Collection: Live Life
Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.Collection: Done
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.Collection: Inspirational
Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.Collection: Listening
Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.Collection: Leadership
Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.Collection: Reality
Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.Collection: Integrity
Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.Collection: Wake Up
Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.Collection: People
Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.Collection: Perfect
Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.Collection: Greatness
Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others youre better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.Collection: Believe
Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.Collection: Leader
Leading is not the same as being the leader. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you—not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.Collection: Leadership
If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.Collection: Relationship
Our vision is only actionable if we share it. Without sharing, it’s just a figment of our imagination.Collection: Imagination
Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do moreCollection: Responsibility
Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.Collection: Responsibility
What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.Collection: Ideas
The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.Collection: Self
The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't.Collection: Believe
Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.Collection: Decisions We Make
If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.Collection: Ideas
Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.Collection: Inspired
Leadership is not a rank, it's a choice.Collection: Choices
People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?Collection: Home
Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.Collection: Motivational
Disney is one of the best hotel companies in the world. Yet they have never and will never open a casino on the Vegas strip.Collection: Vegas