Simon Sinek Quotes

I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

Good leadership is leadership that shows vulnerability.

Making yourself vulnerable is a key element of leading.

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

My opening words to anybody I hire are, 'I'm an extremely vulnerable person.'

I think being vulnerable to other humans is a form of strength.

My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

I'm very human.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion.

I don't have a problem showing vulnerability.

Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.

It's easy to ask other people to open up and to judge them if they don't, but it's always difficult to lead by example.

In the past, I have assumed the word 'vulnerability' equates with the word 'weakness' and 'This Is Us' shows us that it is in fact the opposite.

I'm not gonna sit and pretend I'm hard as nails.

I have a way of opening up people and gaining their trust. I think they can see my vulnerability because I'm unafraid to admit if something doesn't quite work.