Simon Sinek Quotes:

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Topics: Thinking, Acting, Way

More often than not when we do not like our work, it's not necessarily because of the work itself. But more often because of the people we work with and more importantly because of the lack of leadership. It is amazing how inspired and motivated we can be when we like the people and when we feel like we show up to work because our leaders care about our wellbeing. It is kind of incredible actually.

Topics: People, Leader, Care, Wellbeing, Lack Of Leadership

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

Topics: Jobs, People, Leader

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.

Topics: Player, People, Leader

True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

Topics: Risk, Steps, Needs, True Leader

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.

Topics: Growing Up, Kids, Responsibility

Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

source: - Twitter post from Sep 14, 2016

Topics: Nice, Personality, Leader, Caring For Others, Trust Others

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

Topics: People, Return, Want, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

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

Topics: Hard Work, Leader, Benefits

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

Topics: Responsibility, Great Leadership

Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

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

Topics: Intelligent, Thinking, Opposites, Complete Opposites, Empowering Others

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

Topics: Leader, Vision, Stubborn

Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.

Topics: Sacrifice, Leader, Energy, Time And Energy

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded.

Topics: Greatness, Born, Great Inspirational

The reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things. How can I help somebody I care about find the job they love? How can I help somebody I care about find happiness in their work? And when we commit to service it actually biologically and anthropologically is more likely to lead to our own success and our own happiness.

Topics: Jobs, Reality, Trying

And it's those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.

Topics: Inspire, Ability

We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.

Topics: Responsibility, Thinking, Together

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

Topics: Next, Generations, Election, Next Generation

The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.

Topics: Jobs, Struggle, Helping Others

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

Topics: Self, Cost, Interest, Self Interest

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.

Topics: Leader, Risk, Path

Value is a perception not a calculation.  Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get

Topics: People, Perception, Values

Bad leaders care about who is right.  Good leaders care about what is right

Topics: Leader, Care, Good Leader

Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

Topics: Leader, Great Leader, Humans

Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.

Topics: Meaningful, People, Freak

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

Topics: Responsibility, Ideas, Environment, Responsibility Of Leadership

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.

Topics: Leader, Inspire, True Value

Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.

Topics: Mistake, Integrity, Two

When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.

Topics: Progress, Obstacles, Offers

Some see risk as a reason not to try. Some see it as an obstacle to overcome. The risk is the same; to try or not depends on your perspective.

Topics: Perspective, Risk, Trying

Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.

Topics: Giving, Leader, Mind, Give And Take

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.

Topics: Exercise, Care, Action, Actions Speak Louder, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

Topics: Want, Helping

I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.

Topics: Balance, Rooms, Looks

The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.

Topics: Journey, Way, Starting

When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.

source: - Twitter post from Oct 11, 2011

Topics: Helping Others, Moments, Fulfillment, Moments Of Happiness

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

Topics: Two, Inspire, Way, Two Ways

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.

Topics: Live Life, Inspire, Purpose, Live With Purpose

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

source: - Twitter post from Jul 07, 2009

Topics: Facts, Plans, According To Plan, Predictability, Worst Case Scenario

Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there

source: - Twitter post from Oct 18, 2011

Topics: Long, Focus, Term, Adjustment, Long Term Success

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

Topics: Office, Choices, Leader

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

Topics: Ideas, Impact, Genius

A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

Topics: People, Leader, Stories

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

Topics: Two, Numbers, Claims

Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact.

Topics: Impact, Focus, Making Money

Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.

Topics: Organization, Self, Gains

We are only in charge when we are willing to let others take charge.

Topics: Willing

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

Topics: Mindset, Accepting, Given

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

Topics: Leader, Tools, Blame

Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.

Topics: Achievement, Want, Pursuit

There are leaders, and there are those who lead.

Topics: Leader

Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.

Topics: Decision, Who We Are, Authenticity

Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.

Topics: Hard Work, Special, Energy, It Takes Time, Time And Energy

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

source: - Twitter post from Sep 20, 2013

Topics: Team, People, Together, Cooperation And Collaboration, Cooperation Teamwork

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

Topics: Teach, Willing, Willing To Learn

Inspire people to do the things that inspire them and, together, we can change our world.

Topics: Our World, People, Inspire

The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.

source: - Twitter post from Jun 02, 2014

Topics: People, Leader, Care, Great Leadership

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

Topics: People, Leader, Great Leader, Meaningful Work, Workmen

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

Topics: People, Leader, Inspire

When a leader makes the choice to put the safety and lives of the people inside the organization first, to sacrifice their comforts and sacrifice the tangible results, so that the people remain and feel safe and feel like they belong, remarkable things happen.

Topics: Motivational, Sacrifice, Organization

There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open.

Topics: Running, Eye, Heart, Eyes Wide Open, Giving Directions

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

Topics: Sacrifice, Decision, Balance

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

Topics: Believe, Competition, Stronger

If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe.

Topics: Believe

If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.

Topics: Dream, Goal, Articulating

Every one of us has the capacity to lead

Topics: Capacity

Followers want to be taken care of. Leaders want to take care of others. We can all be leaders.

Topics: Taken, Leader, Care

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

Topics: Differences, Waiting, Listening

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

Topics: Innovation, Done, Imagine, Pragmatism

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

Topics: Giving, Leader, Quality, Qualities Of A Leader

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

Topics: Leader, Inspire, Influence

What you do is proof of what you believe.

Topics: Believe, Proof

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.

Topics: Giving, People, Guy, Giving Directions

A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.

Topics: Leader, Lasts, Firsts

Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.

Topics: Believe, Stories, May

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.

Topics: Mean, Leader, Want, Earning It

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

Topics: Choices

We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us.

Topics: Believe, Organization, Giving

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?

Topics: Morning, Mean, People

The value we provide most to others is the same value we appreciate most from others.

Topics: Appreciate, Values

Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.

Topics: Helping, Pursue

The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.

Topics: Heart, Mind

If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.

Topics: Ideas, World, Want

Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

Topics: Life Changing, Change For The Better, Realizing

Being driven is not the same as being passionate. Passion is a love for the journey. Drive is a need to reach the destination.

Topics: Passion, Journey, Needs

The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.

source: - Twitter post from Jun 26, 2012

Topics: Goal, Perfect, Today, Better Me, Not Being Perfect

Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.

Topics: Inspired, Easy, Driven

Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Topics: Reality, Imagination

What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.

Topics: Impact, Feels, Direct, Social Interaction

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

Topics: People, Leader, Inspire, Be Inspired

If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.

Topics: Giving, Trying

Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.

Topics: Grateful, Luxury, Feelings

The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.

Topics: Scary, Trying, Avoidance, Bright Future

How can you help the human race progress?

Topics: Race, Progress, Helping

True love is when both people think they have the better half of the deal.

Topics: Love Is, Thinking, People, Better Half

Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.

Topics: Survival, Form, Ability

If you don't understand people, you don't understand business.

Topics: People, Marketing, Helpful

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

Topics: Reality, Helping, Idealist

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.

Topics: Running, Ideas, Vision

It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know.

Topics: Matter

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.

Topics: Passion, Light, Fire

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

Topics: Distance, Bigs, Big Picture

Words may inspire but only action creates change.

source: - Twitter post from Mar 09, 2012

Topics: Inspire, May, Action

Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

Topics: Emotional, Numbers, Quality

If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.

Topics: Two, People, Leader

A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.

Topics: Leader, Firsts, Shows

Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.

Topics: Believe, Giving, Leader

We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see.

Topics: Dream, Reality, Should, Dream Reality

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.

source: - Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.8, Penguin

Topics: Self, Leader, Care, Needs Of Others

Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech.

Topics: Dream, Kings, Speech

Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.

Topics: Creativity, Looks, Problem

When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.

Topics: People, Leader, Care

The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.

Topics: Responsibility, Giving, Done

Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.

Topics: Dream, Bigs

The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

Topics: Ideas, Honest, Helping, Helping Hand, Honesty Is The Best Policy

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

Topics: Trying, Starting, Starting A Business

Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

Topics: Sacrifice, Volunteer, Leader, Willingness To Sacrifice

When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.

Topics: Care, I Care, Cheat

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

Topics: Innovation, Progress, Embrace

Be the leader you wish you had.

source: - Twitter post from Jul 29, 2013

Topics: Leader, Wish

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.

Topics: Real, Breathing, Numbers

Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.

Topics: Average, Organization, People

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

Topics: Dream, Reality, Thinking

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

Topics: Acceptance, Tunnels, Vision, Tunnel Vision

A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own.

Topics: Moving, People, Causes

Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.

Topics: Together, World, Changing The World, Being Together, Better Together

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

Topics: Organization, Leader, Great Leadership

Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.

Topics: Responsibility, Giving

Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired.

Topics: People, Demand, Inspired

Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.

Topics: Phones, People, Facts

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.

Topics: Struggle, Long, Lessons, Long Term Success

The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.

Topics: Sleep, Games, Feel Good, Playing Video Games, Time Well Spent

No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will open doors for you.

Topics: Doors, Games, Matter

I have been inspired by Martin Luther King and how he inspired a movement. I have learned that a cause must be organic; if it is to have an impact it must belong to those who join the movement and not those who lead it.

Topics: Kings, Impact, Movement

Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.

Topics: Numbers, Leader, Watches

A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

Topics: Responsibility, Leader, Credit, When Things Go Wrong, Great Leadership

Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.

Topics: Giving Up, Trying, World

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

Topics: Vision, Instruction, Given

The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.

Topics: Insecure, Talking, Sticks, Keep Talking

Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.

Topics: Beautiful, Life Is Beautiful, People, People In Your Life, Meeting New People

Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.

Topics: Opportunity, People, Entrepreneur

The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.

Topics: Creative

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

Topics: Lying, People, Disappoint, Inconvenient Truth, Untruth

When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.

Topics: Facts, Helping, Accepting

The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

Topics: Race, Optimism, Progress, Unwavering

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, sweat, and tears.

Topics: Leadership, Jobs, Believe, Sweat And Tears, Blood Sweat And Tears

The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.

Topics: Determined, Life Is, Values

Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.

Topics: Wake Up, Pursuit, Never Ending, Why We Do What We Do

Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.

Topics: Opportunity, Inspire, Burden

The trick to balance is to not make sacrificing important things become the norm.

Topics: Sacrifice, Balance, Important

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Topics: Leadership, Two, Goal, Ability To Communicate

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

source: - FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Feb 28, 2012

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Stress

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

Topics: Care

We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.

Topics: Lost, Lost Time, Lost Money

Let us not attack those who disagree. Let us defend those who follow.

Topics: Disagree

A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.

Topics: Stars, Leader, Want

Make it about them, not about you.

Topics: Blogging

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Topics: Ideas, Goal, Trying

Work with people who believe what you believe.

Topics: Believe, People

Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

Topics: Past, Talking, Vision

Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.

source: - Twitter post from Aug 03, 2011

Topics: Shows, Prove

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

Topics: Way, Optimist

Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.

Topics: Dream, Real, Book

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

Topics: Acceptance, Winning, Desire, Desire To Win

Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

Topics: Curiosity, Progress, Looks, Room For Improvement

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Topics: Responsibility, Being Human, Paradox

If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.

Topics: Want, Feels, Fulfilled

Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

Topics: Imperfection, Leader, Quality

We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.

Topics: Running, Organization, People

The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.

Topics: Believe, Goal, People, Selective

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Topics: People, Want, Telling The Truth

When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success.

Topics: Morning, Successful, Goal, True Success

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

Topics: Ideas, People, Should, Bad Ideas

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

Topics: Swimming, Risk, Safe, Swimming Pool, Sidewalk

There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.

Topics: Differences, Offering, Giving

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

Topics: Optimism, Complaining, Complaints

People will do as they are told by someone who outranks them, but they will only follow someone they believe in.

Topics: Believe, People

Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.

Topics: Leader, Looks, Recognition, Acknowledgement, Great Leadership

What you do simply proves what you believe.

Topics: Believe, Prove

We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.

Topics: Lasts, Competing

For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.

Topics: Leadership, Integrity, Ideas, Different Angles, Articulating

Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.

Your work is your own private megaphone to tell the world what you believe.

Topics: Motivational, Believe, World

Offer your strengths to others and you'll be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you.

Topics: People, Amazed, Offers

We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.

Topics: Responsibility, Leader, Care, Responsibility To Protect

Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.

Topics: Simple, Ideas, World, Simple Ideas

We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.

Topics: Dream, Competition, Achieve, Chase Your Dreams, Goals And Objectives

Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.

Topics: Hate, Fighting, Focus

The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.

Topics: Work Out, Way

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

source: - Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014

Topics: Team, People, Working Together, Team Building, Cooperation And Collaboration

The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.

Topics: Ideas, Giving, Next

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

Topics: Believe, Goal, People

Pushing yourself to be the best is unsustainable. Simply push yourself to be better than the day before.

Topics: Pushing, Being The Best, Push Yourself

A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.

Topics: Team, Causes, Achieve

Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.

Topics: Giving, Inspire, Inspire Others, Expecting Nothing In Return

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.

Topics: Jobs, People, Leader, Get The Job Done

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.

Topics: Journey, Goal, Leader

The more you inspire, the more people will inspire you.

Topics: People, Inspire

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe

source: - "How great leaders inspire action". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2009.

Topics: Life, Believe, People, Great Marketing, Business Marketing

Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.

source: - Twitter post from Feb 18, 2013

Topics: Done, Helping