Simon Sinek Quotes

When I ran the stock exchange, it was the most successful it's been in its 200-plus-year history. And I was rewarded for success; I would not have been rewarded if we failed.

This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

I opened Union Square Cafe when I was just 27 years old, and my first hope was simply that it would stay in business. My higher hope was that in its lifetime, it might grow to play an essential role in the lives of its stakeholders.

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.

The reviews are getting better, but they always do, in time, if you're still alive.

Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.

I'm a successful businessman.

You might not be the greatest rapper or singer, but the businessman always outlasts the talent.

I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.

Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is sinful to do this. If it's a sin, then I hope all of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries are sinners. Someone whose salary is paid by U.S.taxpayers is happy to dramatically weaken the one place where we're winning big?!

When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.

The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

You sleep on a win and you'll wake up with a loss.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Money can run out but talent is forever

The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 in 1931 was a satisfactory operation. Some may think that an intelligent investor should have been able to sell out much closer to the high of 381 and to buy back nearer the low of 41. If that is your own view you are probably a speculator at heart and will have trouble keeping to true investment precepts while the market rushes up and down.

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.