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 studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.