Simon Sinek

If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.