Simon Sinek Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.”

“Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.”

“Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.”

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

“A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.”

“Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.”

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

“I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.”

“My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?”

“Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.”