Simon Sinek Quotes

When I am training, I don't want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.

My dreams are bigger than money; they're bigger than fame.

I've often looked at the extremes as a way to shed light on the mainstream. Even though everybody says, "Money doesn't buy you happiness," I don't think that that's the principle by which people live. If you talk to kids and ask them what they want to be when they grow up, they say, "Rich and famous," but being rich and famous is not a job.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.

If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.

When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

The American dream is not about how much money you make or how many buildings have your name on it.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things - travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes...but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

Might sound crazy but I just left the private plane, promoter paid 100 k and I ain't even stay the whole day.

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

Not that that's my goal, but when you're very wealthy and very famous, you can have a lot more decisions in what you do. You have a lot more opportunity. You can maybe even not work for a few years. It puts you in a great position to make some decisions. You're not always taking every job that comes and that kind of thing.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

If you are going to work hard anyway, you might as well get rich...and the quicker the better!

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.