Simon Sinek Quotes

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

Trust leads to approachability and open communications.

I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.

Building relationships. Communicating. Trust. Those are three things I've kind of instilled myself with.

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

Communication is number one, and we have to communicate honestly and openly with each other.

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Trust brings a higher level of communication and a higher level of commitment and accountability.

Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.

If you listen, people will tell you exactly what they want - whether it's a business relationship or a consumer relationship.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

I just want to listen and build relationships with as many of my colleagues as possible.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'