Simon Sinek Quotes

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

If you're trying to avoid one move that you don't think is going to work out, don't then settle for a different move that maybe doesn't check all the boxes. Be true to the philosophy and understand the bigger picture. There's always another day to fight.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Life is a weird thing because it puts roadblocks in front of you, sometimes you gotta go through it, sometimes you gotta go around it, sometimes you gotta take a pause and look back at what you're gonna do, have a plan.

Don't be too close-minded, and don't think there's only one way to get to where you want to be. There are a thousand ways to get there, and if one way doesn't work, try the other.

The mantra I used was 'find a way.'

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in.

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.