Marcus Buckingham Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.”

“I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.”

“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 dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.”

“Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.”

“People buy pads all the time, because they want to write stuff down. We're never going to get away from paper, ever. People like writing; that's why more people are writing more real thank-you notes now - not just to stand out, but because there's something about pen to paper, about holding something cool in your hands.”

“Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older.”

“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 incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.”

“Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.”

“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 choice-maker.”

“Men have the choice to arrange their schedules so they can pick up the kids from school twice a week. And they have the choice not to, and then to feel guilty about this choice.”