Marcus Buckingham Quotes

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

Star performers are my favorite to manage and lead. Star performers are critical to any organization, and the key is how can you capture their heart-share and their mind-share when they're on this fast track.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!

As a CEO, you get sucked into dealing with all the tasks of being a CEO. There's a big meeting, a big discussion, and you get into all the big issues, which is your job. But what CEOs often lose sight of is that it's all about the people who work for you. For every 1,000 decisions, 999 were being made when I was not in the room.

People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be.

I have a great team at WME.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don't question how they do things.

When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.

CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.

Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.

I learnt from an early age this need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?

30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.

Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.