Simon Sinek Quotes

It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.

I think the way I look at things gives me a different perspective. I'm most valuable when I work with a team of bright people who complement my weaknesses with their strengths.

What you have to become is really strong in what you do. That's the point of building a team. You don't know any other way - it would be absurd to do it any other way.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

It's better to have a lot of different qualities in the team; it's a good mix.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

Concentrate on doing what you do best, and let others do the rest.

We can't all do everything.

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do together that neither of us can do separately. We've been working together so closely that it's kind of hard to decide what's my work and what's her work, it's ours really.

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

It just doesn't work without the others.

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.