Leadership Quotes

"Regardless of technology or the speed of innovation, people are still people. And all the rules of humanity still apply."

- Simon Sinek

"Bad marketing values promotions. Good marketing promotes values."

- Simon Sinek

"The best leaders are also the best followers. They follow a purpose, cause, or belief bigger than themselves."

- Simon Sinek

"The greatest contribution of a leader is to make others leaders."

- Simon Sinek

"Great leaders develop through a never-ending process of self-study, self-reflection, education, training, and experience."

- Tony Buon

"It is the weak leader that compensates by acting strong. It is the strong leader that allows people to see when they are weak."

- Simon Sinek

"New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how brilliant and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them."

- Simon Sinek

"There is a cost to lead. True leaders are willing to pay the price: sacrifice self-interest and put their Cause ahead of themselves."

- Simon Sinek

"A great leader doesn’t only inspire us to have confidence in what THEY can do. A great leader inspires us to have confidence in what WE can do."

- Simon Sinek

"We can only truly be in charge when we are willing to let others take charge."

- Simon Sinek

"There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it."

- Simon Sinek

"Strong leaders earn loyalty. Weak leaders demand it."

- Simon Sinek

"Good leaders have the ability to inspire us in their lifetime. Great leaders have the ability to inspire us beyond their lifetime."

- Simon Sinek

"Bad leaders care about who’s right. Good leaders care about what’s right."

- Simon Sinek

"A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead."

- Simon Sinek

"When we work on a Trusting Team, we feel safe to admit our mistakes, be honest about our shortcomings, and ask for help when we need it."

- Simon Sinek

"You don’t build a business, you build people, then people build the business."

- Zig Ziglar

"For a message to have real impact, to affect behavior and seed loyalty, it needs to publicize some higher purpose, cause, or belief to which those with similar values and beliefs can relate."

- Simon Sinek

"Without a WHY, the buyer is easily motivated by aspiration or fear."

- Simon Sinek

"It's not WHAT computers did that inspired Bill Gates; it was WHY we needed them."

- Simon Sinek

"The goal is to feel a part of something, not just play a part in anything."

- Simon Sinek

"People like me write these polemics with the hope that we can somehow influence some change for the greater good."

- Simon Sinek

"You don't build a business, you build the people, then people build the business."

- Zig Ziglar

"You don’t build a business. You build people and people build the business."

- Zig Ziglar

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss ... The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done."

- Peter Drucker

"Leadership belongs to those who take it."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"In any war who pulls their general out? No one."

- Ray Lewis

"You gotta be hungry for it. You’ve got to put everything you got on it. EVERYTHING! Every second. You have to be the first one in line. That’s how leaders are born."

- Ray Lewis

"Building a strong culture is what builds a strong organization."