Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek
Simon O. Sinekis an author, speaker, and consultant who writes on leadership and management. He joined the RAND Corporation in 2010 as an adjunct staff member, where he advises on matters of military innovation and planning. He is known for popularizing the concepts of "the golden circle" and to "Start With Why", described by TED as "a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?"'. Sinek's first TEDx Talk on "How...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 October 1973
Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.
What you do simply proves what you believe.
We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.
We can teach only if we are willing to learn.
If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.
What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care.
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.
Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.
Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.
The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.
Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.