Top 500 Simon Sinek Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.”

— Simon Sinek

102. “Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.”

— Simon Sinek

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

— Simon Sinek

104. “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.”

— Simon Sinek

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

— Simon Sinek

106. “We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.”

— Simon Sinek

107. “Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.”

— Simon Sinek

108. “Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.”

— Simon Sinek

109. “Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.”

— Simon Sinek

110. “We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.”

— Simon Sinek

111. “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.”

— Simon Sinek

112. “If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.”

— Simon Sinek

113. “The goal is not simply to ‘work hard, play hard.’ The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishab le.”

— Simon Sinek

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

— Simon Sinek

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

— Simon Sinek

116. “You have to be careful what you think you know.”

— Simon Sinek

117. “No matter when or where, always bring your ‘A’ game, because you never know when it will open doors for you.”

— Simon Sinek

118. “People will trust their leaders when their leaders do the things that make them feel psychologically safe.”

— Simon Sinek

119. “Don’t wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.”

— Simon Sinek

120. “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.”

— Simon Sinek

121. “The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.”

— Simon Sinek

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

— Simon Sinek

123. “The only way to ‘find out if it will work out’ is to do it.”

— Simon Sinek

124. “Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there.”

— Simon Sinek

125. “To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.”

— Simon Sinek

126. “The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.”

— Simon Sinek

127. “If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.”

— Simon Sinek

128. “Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.”

— Simon Sinek

129. “We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what’s wrong before telling them they are wrong.”

— Simon Sinek

130. “Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.”

— Simon Sinek

131. “When leaders are willing to prioritize trust over performance, performance almost always follows.”

— Simon Sinek

132. “Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back.”

— Simon Sinek

133. “If we expect people to live the core values of an organization, we have to be able to tell them what those values look like in action.”

— Simon Sinek

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

— Simon Sinek

135. “Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything – for better or for worse.”

— Simon Sinek

136. “The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.”

— Simon Sinek

137. “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.”

— Simon Sinek

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

— Simon Sinek

139. “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.”

— Simon Sinek

140. “We don’t learn much when everything goes right. We learn the most when things go wrong.”

— Simon Sinek

141. “The greatest contribution of a leader is to make other leaders.”

— Simon Sinek

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

— Simon Sinek

143. “Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.”

— Simon Sinek

144. “Courage isn’t inside; it’s external. It comes from someone else telling you they believe in you.”

— Simon Sinek

145. “Happiness comes from what we do. Fulfillment comes from why we do it.”

— Simon Sinek

146. “Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.”

— Simon Sinek

147. “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.”

— Simon Sinek

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

— Simon Sinek

149. “We can’t all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.”

— Simon Sinek

150. “When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.”

— Simon Sinek