Simon Sinek Quotes

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.

To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!

Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

Being a visionary leader is not about giving speeches and inspiring the troops. How I spend my day is pretty much the same as how any executive spends his day. Being a visionary leader is about solving day-to-day problems with my vision in mind.

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

Being good is good business

Leadership is all about right and wrong.

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

The main social responsibility for a company is to win.