All Marcus Buckingham Quotes
- People leave managers, not companies Companies
- The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee… Benefits
- Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others. Challenge
- Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really… Feel
- When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a… Action
- CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable.… Bad
- Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook,… Been
- Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam:… Ads
- I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be… Afraid
- In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to… Attitude
- It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple… Apple
- American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important. American
- Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk. American
- Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace. Company
- I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out. Book
- Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground. Best
- It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain. America
- Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert… Better
- Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths. Been
- The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path. Best