Simon Sinek Quotes

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Well done is better than well said.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action — action!

There are the talkers and there are the doers.

I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

There are a lot of talkers in the world. There are a lot of people who know what’s right and what’s powerful, yet still aren’t producing the results they desire. It’s not enough to talk the talk. You’ve got to walk the talk

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

You don't get anything done by planning

We need a doer, not a talker.

It is not enough to want to make the effort... it's in the doing, not just the thinking that we accomplish our goals.