Marcus Buckingham Quotes

We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is fitted.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.

Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.

Each person has his strong point.

What it is you do, no one else does. Just hone in on it, and just get better and greater.

Everybody does things well in their own aspect. We're all different. We all have our plusses and minuses.

That's where I got lucky; nobody else is doing what I do or really can do what I do.

My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and the one thing I can do is write narratives and build characters. I can do that.

That's something I embrace, just doing stuff not many people can do.

I want everyone to be aware of what their superpower is because I believe that we all have superpowers.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.

You have a talent that is unique in its expression, so unique that there's no one else alive on this planet that has that talent, or that expression of that talent. This means that there's one thing you can do and one way of doing it that is better than anyone else on this entire planet.

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world.

Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well, and the number of men who can do two things well is negligible. If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.