Simon Sinek Quotes

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

If you're not convinced, how can you convince others?

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

I don't want to preach to people.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

To be persuasive we must be believable. To be believable, we must be truthful.

Long speeches work if they’re filled with substance.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.

To be successful you have to convince the public.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

When I was a young boy I used to raise chickens and I was studying to be a preacher. I used to practice preaching to the chickens. Some of those chickens listened to me better than some of my colleagues now in the Congress.

In order to make a good speech you must have something to say and you have to believe it.

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

The 'Rule of Three' is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation, it's really hard to repeatedly lie or fake conviction.

If you believe in something, be willing to explain it.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.