Simon Sinek Quotes

People look for their leadership to lead.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

It isn't worth trying to lead if your people won't follow.

Leadership doesn't amount to much unless you have followers.

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

To be a leader means to be able to move masses

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

We lead by influence. That is what good leadership is about.

It isn’t leadership if no one follows.

People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. And I try to model that in all of my interactions.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

I just want to be a leader.

Leaders must lead.

I don't see myself as a leader, I just feel that everything I say, people are listening and people are doing.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

There are leaders, and there are those who lead. Leaders are those who hold a position of power or authority. But those who lead are those who inspire us. And it's those who start with why, that have the ability to inspire those around them or find others who inspire them.