Simon Sinek Quotes

What I'm doing is obeying the law of diffusion of innovations.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

We need the best and the brightest thinkers, strategists, coders, surveillance experts, tech geeks, and disruptors to utilize all of the tools we have available to us to build the world that we want to see. A world where black lives matter. A world where all lives matter.

There's nothing wrong with being an innovator, but how do you innovate? Are you just destroying the place, or are you protecting the place?

There's always a little bit of friction when you're trying to democratize an industry.

Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Technology changes nothing.

Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what's going on and try to see where we can fit in.

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

The real question is who will innovate.

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.

Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.

A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

I tell you, my fellow Americans, that if we learned anything from the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the governments in Eastern Europe, even a totally controlled society cannot resist the winds of change that economics and technology and information flow have imposed in this world of ours. That is not an option. Our only realistic option is to embrace these changes and create the jobs of tomorrow.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.