Marcus Buckingham Quotes

People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

To be honest, we spent many years at Warner, and in the very beginning, there was a very passionate team that worked alongside us on a daily basis. Every year that went by, we would lose just about every single person that worked directly with us, to the point that I honestly couldn't have picked up a phone and gotten one person who knew me.

I get to choose the people I work with.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.

If people feel like the boss doesn't respect them, they don't stretch for the boss.

Every job I've taken, I like to bring in some new faces.

People don't value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love - wouldn't work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher?

I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.

The majority of our happiness at work is determined by the people who surround us. Strong teams produce more content, launch more products, and sign more contracts. And most importantly, they have fun doing it.

If you hire great people, and they're all self-motivated, then you can get by without a lot of structure.

I enjoy the company and interaction of people at work.

I don't think I am very easy to work for because everything has to be just right or we don't put it out. But at the same time, all the people that work for me have a "no asshole" rule, if you're a jerk you're fired, so it's a great team and a lot of skillful people at the top of the game, anybody from management to the agents to the publicists to the day-to-day website stuff and it's just a great team.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

More often than not when we do not like our work, it's not necessarily because of the work itself. But more often because of the people we work with and more importantly because of the lack of leadership. It is amazing how inspired and motivated we can be when we like the people and when we feel like we show up to work because our leaders care about our wellbeing. It is kind of incredible actually.

If you're excited about what you're doing, it's a lot more likely that your employees will also be excited. People want to work for a person, not a company. It's about relationships.

With any job the main thing that makes the job is the people.

Hire people you get along with, and then let them do what they do best.

There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.

You've got to like the people you work with.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

The director sets the tone, and if someone's ruling it with an iron fist, people are quiet and the days go long in my experience, when there's a very serious tone, the days just drag. When there's someone who, in between takes, is joking or laughing the days go quick.

Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.