Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Simon Sinek
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
“the true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.”
“As the Zen Buddhist saying goes, how you do anything is how you do everything.”
“Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.”
“And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader’s vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.”
“It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.”
“We are not victims of our situation. We are the architects of it.”
“If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.”
“Leadership is not a license to do less; it is a responsibility to do more.”
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