Simon Sinek Quotes

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

I have built my organization upon fear.

At the end of the day, when you are in the front office, your tenure is dictated by the people surrounding you.

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

It was better to fall among crows than among flatterers; for that crows only devour the dead, but the flatterers devour the living.

It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a great hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

I can’t afford to have my Vice President who knows every reporter in town, go around saying we’re all screwed up, so we’re going to keep him happy. You are dealing with a very insecure, sensitive man with a huge ego. I want you to literally kiss his ass from one end of Washington to the other.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

I don't like having managers.

It's better to be known as a puppet than pretend not to be a puppet like Nawaz Sharif.

Underlings look up to the boss for behavioral cues, subtle signs, hints and gestures.

I think Tesla doesn't sound like it has a very collaborative culture.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat; I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't. You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't. Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows, Your handshake ain't matchin your smile.