Marcus Buckingham Quotes

Marcus Buckingham is a British author, motivational speaker and business consultant. Basing most of his writing on extensive survey data from interviews with workers in countries around the world, he promotes the idea that people will get the best results by making the most of their strengths rather than by putting too much emphasis on weaknesses or perceived deficiencies.

✵ 11. January 1966

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Famous Marcus Buckingham Quotes

“Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.”

Marcus Buckingham

Source: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

“People leave managers, not companies”

Marcus Buckingham

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

“In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.”

Marcus Buckingham

“The necessity for leaders to possess optimism and ego serves to answer the age-old question: Are leaders born or are they made? They are born. A leader is born with an optimistic disposition or she is not. If she is not, then no amount of "optimism training" is going to make her view the world in an overwhelmingly positive, opportunistic light.”

Marcus Buckingham

Source: The One Thing You Need to Know (2005), p. 69

“If great managers are catalysts, speeding up the reaction between the individual's talents and the company's goals, then great leaders are alchemists. Somehow they are able to transform our fear of the unknown into confidence in the future.”

Marcus Buckingham

Source: The One Thing You Need to Know (2005), p. 145

“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 strengthens us.”

Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham, cited in: Mohamed Tohami, Perk Up Your Profits, 2013. p. 38

Marcus Buckingham Quotes

“Clarity is the antidote to anxiety, and therefore clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.”

Marcus Buckingham

Source: The One Thing You Need to Know (2005), p. 146

“The great organization must not only accommodate the fact that each employee is different, it must capitalize on these differences. It must watch for clues to each employee's natural talents and then position and develop each employee so that his or her talents are transformed into bona fide strengths.”

Marcus Buckingham

Source: Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001), p. 5

“What defines a leader is his preoccupation with the future. In his head he carries a vivid image of what the future could be, and this image drives him on.”

Marcus Buckingham

Source: The One Thing You Need to Know (2005), p. 59

“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 what you're doing every day.”

Marcus Buckingham

Author Marcus Buckingham, cited in: Michel Beaudry, " Sam Rees - making the Whistler leap http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/sam-rees-making-the-whistler-leap/Content?oid=2519430," at piquenewsmagazine.com, November 28, 2013.

“Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession—from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting—you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.”

Marcus Buckingham

Source: Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001), p. 21

“Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.”

Marcus Buckingham

Source: Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001), p. 8

“People don’t change that much. Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.”

Marcus Buckingham

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