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
Work hard to seem infallible and others will work to find our flaws. Admit our shortcomings and others will work to help us be infallible.
We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.
The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.
How can you help the human race progress?
Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.
Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.
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.
Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.
When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.
When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.
A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy from the prying eyes of government. It does not, however, protect us from the prying eyes of companies and corporations.
It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.
The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.