Quotes from Simon Sinek

The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success

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.

Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.

Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

I'm very prescriptive about who I work with.

Start with why. And work really hard to make sure you're consistent.

We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future.

There's only one of me. With you using the why in the center of your work helps me.

People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?

Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.

Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. Not for any reason.

Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

I cannot tell you how long it takes for your exercise to work. If you haven't seen any results in a year or six months you're doing something wrong.

A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.

Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

Leaders who fail are the ones who do it by themselves. Leaders who succeed are the ones who allow others to help them.