Marcus Buckingham Quotes

Whether you're 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you're bad at, and focus on the things you're good at.

From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.

I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths

Focus on your strengths.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

You have to know what your talent is, and you have to exploit it. And then, while you're exploiting that talent, you find ways and tools to elevate other sides of you that are weaker.

I'll work on my weaknesses and build on my strengths.

Every training session, I work hard to improve my weaknesses and build on my strengths.

You can and must always keep improving and working on your game - not just your weaknesses but also your strengths.

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.

Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not.

I do not talk about my weaknesses, I work on them.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.