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Simon Sinek

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TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

Right?

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

That's where we're going.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

And we need money to make this thing that we're trying to give to the world go.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

But you can't have a gas-filled car with no compass, no GPS, no direction, no destination, and no map.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

You're just going to squirrel around saying, how do we get more gas?

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

How do we get more gas?

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

Which is kind of the way companies look these days.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

The most beautiful companies, they have a plan.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

They have a map.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

They've got a compass.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

They're looking out the front window.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

And of course, they're looking at the gas gauge.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

And we follow the stupid Milton Friedman definition of the purpose of a company is to maximize profit within the bounds of the rules.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

In other words, don't break the law.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

That's a pretty low standard, right?

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

Ethics is a much higher standard than the law.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

So companies do unethical things all the time.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

And the CEOs go in front of Congress and say like, well, we didn't break the law.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

It's like, yeah, but you're still an asshole.

TED Talks Daily
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Start With Why, 15th Anniversary Edition | Simon Sinek

When you raise the, you have a patent on an essential drug and you raise the price of it 1500%, not nice, not illegal, but not cool, right?