Top 100 Buckingham Quotes
#1. 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, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.
Marcus Buckingham
#3. We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.
Marcus Buckingham
#4. You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie.
Lindsey Buckingham
#7. If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.
Jamie Buckingham
#8. My feelings about politics and literature and mathematics and the rest of life's minutiae can only be described through a labyrinthine of six-sided questions, but everything that actually matters can be explained by Lindsey fucking Buckingham and Stevie fucking Nicks in four fucking minutes.
Chuck Klosterman
#9. Abbey was born to sophistication, whereas I was more Barbara than Buckingham Palace Windsor.
Samantha Tonge
#10. Second, that everyone, regardless of who they are, will want to be promoted out of the job as soon as possible.
Marcus Buckingham
#11. procrastination in the face of poor performance is a fool's remedy.
Marcus Buckingham
#12. I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.
Phil Taylor
#13. We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.
Marcus Buckingham
#14. We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
Marcus Buckingham
#15. I think the Duke of Buckingham is the cause of all our miseries, and till the King be informed thereof, we shall never go out with honor, or sit with honor here. That man is the grievance of grievances. Let us set down the causes of all our disasters and they will all reflect upon him.
Edward Coke
#16. It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.
Pauline Quirke
#17. Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.
Nash Buckingham
#18. He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!
Ray Davies
#20. The best long range shotgun load to have in one's boat for mallards is a fine retriever.
Nash Buckingham
#21. Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
Lindsey Buckingham
#22. As a manager your job is not to teach people talent. Your job is to help them earn the accolade "talented" by matching their talent to the role. To do this well, like all great managers, you have to pay close attention to the subtle but significant differences between roles.
Marcus Buckingham
#23. The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries.
Tina Brown
#24. Simply put, this is one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers:
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
#25. The day I'm in England performing, English security let a man in a Batman suit climb Buckingham Palace. I felt so much safer ... Batman was on the wall of Buckingham Palace for five hours. Wouldn't happen in America - three minutes: dead Batman.
Christopher Titus
#28. I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me. I've always wanted to see those.
Alessia Cara
#29. Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
Marcus Buckingham
#30. You will have your own examples of a work environment that seems to be firing on all cylinders. It will be a place where performance levels are consistently high, where turnover levels are low, and where a growing number of loyal customers join the fold every day.
Marcus Buckingham
#31. It's pointless to spend millions on advertising before ensuring that the promise keepers (employees) understand and can keep the promises made by the promise makers
Ian P. Buckingham
#32. The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares. Therefore, as Mr. Wilde said, no two people can perceive the same "truth," because each person's perspective is different.
Marcus Buckingham
#33. For more information, see Marcus Buckingham's book, Find Your Strongest Life,
Marilyn Tam
#35. When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
Lindsey Buckingham
#36. 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 them, to feel the pull of their weight and allow yourself to follow where they lead.
Marcus Buckingham
#37. Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
Marcus Buckingham
#38. No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
Marcus Buckingham
#39. It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other.
Lindsey Buckingham
#40. The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.
Marcus Buckingham
#41. If God is dead, Nietzsche is perhaps the person who stumbles across the corpse; nevertheless, it is Kant whose fingerprints are all over the murder weapon.
Will Buckingham
#42. 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
#43. This can be both a blessing and a curse. You are blessed with a wonderfully unique filter but cursed with a systematic inability to understand anybody else's.
Marcus Buckingham
#44. Change the ideas and keep the forms the same, and you will have changed little.
Marcus Buckingham
#45. You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.
Marcus Buckingham
#46. Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.
Marcus Buckingham
#47. I thought of what might be, if only the people who have too much money would help those who have too little!
Ellen Buckingham Mathews
#48. Then maybe I'll sneak into Buckingham Palace and slit his chicken throat one night.
Charlie Higson
#49. Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak.
Robbie Kearns
#50. Imagine a terrorist pointing a Buddy missile out of a bedroom window in a London suburb and blasting Her Majesty out of bed at Buckingham Palace.
Robert Muchamore
#51. The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
Marcus Buckingham
#52. Every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
Marcus Buckingham
#54. I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I did nick some serviettes with ER and Her Majesty on them from the Jubilee celebrations.
Konnie Huq
#56. 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.
Marcus Buckingham
#57. Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
Marcus Buckingham
#58. Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.
Marcus Buckingham
#60. 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.
Marcus Buckingham
#61. In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help explain the mysteries of management and leadership.
Marcus Buckingham
#62. Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.
Lindsey Buckingham
#63. The house itself was not so much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace, rather gray for California, and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler Building.
Raymond Chandler
#64. I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.
Lindsey Buckingham
#65. I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows.
John Bercow
#66. Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life.
Lindsey Buckingham
#67. Any recurring patterns of behavior that can be productively applied are talents.
Marcus Buckingham
#68. Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.
Marcus Buckingham
#69. My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.
Marcus Buckingham
#70. I hadn't showered
for days, Jack hadn't stopped crying in as many, and I was wondering
what the return policy was on an infant.
Jane Buckingham
#71. Anyone performing evil actions would be acting against their conscience and would therefore feel uncomfortable; and as we all strive for peace of mind it is not something we would do willingly. Evil, he thought, was done because of lack of wisdom and knowledge. From
Will Buckingham
#72. That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.
Lindsey Buckingham
#74. They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.
Lindsey Buckingham
#75. If you want to change your life so that others may benefit from your strengths, then change your values. Don't waste time trying to change your talents.
Marcus Buckingham
#76. Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God's grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.
Richard III Of England
#77. People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.
E.M. Delafield
#78. I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
Anthony Holden
#79. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
Marcus Buckingham
#80. In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it
Marcus Buckingham
#81. You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.
Marcus Buckingham
#82. When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.
Lindsey Buckingham
#83. You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair
Marcus Buckingham
#85. Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I had my guitar with me and I went in their living room, looking out over the incredible Aspen sky and I wrote 'Landslide.
Stevie Nicks
#86. The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
Marcus Buckingham
#87. For true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!
Ellen Buckingham Mathews
#88. It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
Marcus Buckingham
#89. There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity ... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.
Marcus Buckingham
#90. He did not kiss her, for the hour was half-past twelve, and the car was passing by the stables of Buckingham Palace.
E. M. Forster
#91. The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.
Marcus Buckingham
#92. There may indeed be more to life than a pot of cheese, a garden, a few friends; but these things, at least, may be a pretty good start.
Will Buckingham
#93. There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.
Marcus Buckingham
#94. The hallway felt like time itself, and Patricia Buckingham and I were standing at opposite ends-her looking back on all she'd seen, me wondering what lay ahead.
Ally Carter
#95. 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. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
Marcus Buckingham
#97. Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
Marcus Buckingham
#98. Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
Marcus Buckingham
#99. 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 co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.
Marcus Buckingham
#100. Russians are easy to spot, even if you dress them like Buckingham Palace guards. They are "the white people who look seriously ticked off," as Army Ranger vet Ellis Jones, RKC, has put it on our forum.
Pavel Tsatsouline
