Simon Sinek Quotes

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.

I don't think you just become a leader.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

I think you're either born a leader or you're not.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

I think I have a natural ability to lead.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

Not everyone will become a great leader, but everyone can become a better leader.

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in organisation and making plans; the test, the real test, of the leader, lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.