Simon Sinek | 33 Famous Quotes to Start, Lead & Live on Purpose

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All you need is Start!

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

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

3. The only way to ‘find out if it will work out’ is to do it.

4. We are not victims of our situation. We are the architects of it.

5. It doesn’t matter when we start. It doesn’t matter where we start. All that matters is that we start.

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.

11. Don’t give to get. Give to inspire others to give. If you have a gift, it is called a gift for a reason: you have to give it away.

Leadership is always about people.

12. A boss has the title. A leader has the people. Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.

13. Leadership is not a license to do less; it is a responsibility to do more.

14. The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas. The role of a leader is to create an environment where great ideas can happen.

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

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

17. There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

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

19. Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that doesn’t yet exist and the ability to communicate it.

20. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

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

22. We are drawn to leaders and organisations that are good at communicating what they believe.

Fulfilment comes when we live our lives on purpose.

23. If no one ever broke the rules, then we had never advanced.

24. Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they’re crazy.

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

26. Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it.

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

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

29. If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.

30. 100% of customers are people. 100% of employees are people. If you don’t understand people, you don’t understand business.

31. Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them; they hire already motivated people and inspire them.

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

33. Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea – we have a clear picture of how to act in any situation.

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