Simon Sinek Quotes

Working hard for something that we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.

But few of us have ever heard of Samuel Pierpont Langley.

It is not the demands of the job that cause the most stress, but the degree of control workers feel they have throughout their day. The studies also found that the effort required by a job is not in itself stressful, but rather the imbalance between the effort we give and the reward we feel. Put simply: less control, more stress.

Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.

For most of us, we have warmer feelings for the projects we worked on where everything seemed to go wrong. We remember how the group stayed at work until 3 a.m., ate cold pizza and barely made the deadline. Those are the experiences we remember as some of our best days at work. It was not because of the hardship, per se, but because the hardship was shared. It is not the work we remember with fondness, but the camaraderie, how the group came together to get things done. And the reason is, once again, natural. In an effort to get us to help one another during times of struggle, our bodies release oxytocin. In other words, when we share the hardship, we biologically grow closer.

All leaders must have two things: they must have a vision of the world that does not exist and they must have the ability to communicate it. The

All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.

An infinite mindset embraces abundance whereas a finite mindset operates with a scarcity mentality.

Rebecca Baer, a spokeswoman for TiVo, told the New York Times in 2000, "they don't understand why they need this.

Trust is not formed through a screen, it is formed across a table. It takes a handshake to bind humans . . . and no technology yet can replace that. There is no such thing as virtual trust.

Bonuses, promotions and other enticements, even instilling fear in people, become the only way to hold on to talent. That's hardly inspiring.

if we don't understand the cause, then even the right answers will always steer us wrong … eventually. The truth, you see, is always revealed … eventually.

Inside a Circle of Safety, when people trust and share their successes and failures, what they know and what they don't know, the result is innovation. It's just natural.

Our struggles are the short-term steps we must take on our way to long-term success.

If an individual or organization hopes to assume the responsibility of leadership—a responsibility that is given, not taken—then they must think, act, and speak in a way that inspires people to follow.