All Marcus Buckingham Quotes
- "Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's… Art
- You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses. Excel
- You can find energizing moments in each aspect of your life, but to do so you must learn how to catch them, hold on to… Allow
- The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time. Best
- Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of… Abstract
- Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment. Built
- You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness. Areas
- We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious. Cease
- True individuality can be lonely. Individuality
- Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people. Better
- The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting expectations, they define… Define
- A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened. Feel
- People quit managers, not jobs. Inspirational
- Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader. Authenticity
- Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data. Concrete
- 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