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
The reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things. How can I help somebody I care about find the job they love? How can I help somebody I care about find happiness in their work? And when we commit to service it actually biologically and anthropologically is more likely to lead to our own success and our own happiness.
We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives.
Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.
Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
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.
Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.
We should never let reality interfere with our dreams. Reality can't see what we can see.
Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.
Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.
Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
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.
Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.