743 Quotes by Simon Sinek

Cowards... cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger – not because they don’t acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye.

Leadership is the ability to rally people not for a single event, but for years.

It is important to celebrate our victories, but we cannot linger on them. For the Infinite Game is still going and there is still much work to be done.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven’t figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, ‘There’s something fishy about you.’

Successful succession is more than selecting someone with an appropriate skill set – it’s about finding someone who is in lockstep with the original cause around which the company was founded. Great second or third CEOs don’t take the helm to implement their own vision of the future; they pick up the original banner and lead the company into the next generation. That’s why we call it succession, not replacement. There is a continuity of vision.

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

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.

There are many ways to motivate people to do things, but loyalty comes from the ability to inspire people. Only when the WHY is clear and when people believe what you believe can a true loyal relationship develop.

Our strength will come not from the sharpness of our spears, but from our willingness to offer others the protection of our shields.