Marcus Buckingham Quotes

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

There might be more meetings and situations where you're required to represent the country in some way that wouldn't necessarily happen to you if you're a club manager, but other than that, I haven't found any differences in my approach between running a club side and a national team.

You're always going to get different personalities within a team.

Roy Hodgson is a very good manager with a clear plan.

The things that make us different, those are our superpowers.

The way that I prepare, the way that I play, the way that I like to speak to the lads or manage situations is the way that I do things.

Every single club is special and is different.

Sometimes you need to encourage them sometimes even to comfort them, let them know I trust them. Sometimes you need to tell the truth, being more aggressive. That's management. I need to put the players in the best possible conditions.

Every manager has his own idea of playing and his own idea of the training, and everyone has a different personality.

When the players go home, I can't tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don't want to think, 'What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?'

In every team I have played with, and of all of the attackers I have played with, each one was different.

Everyone's love story is going to be unique.

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

Imagine going into an office and telling the staff that they have to follow your philosophy. Imagine the reaction you would get if you said that in any other walk of life. Why would I offer that to my players?

I've always felt that, in the past, there has been a teacher-pupil relationship between the management and the players. But the best teams are run in such a way that the players have a voice.

I have different qualities and no problem with that. Of course, my style of football is not like Messi's or Neymar's.

One of the main tasks of a manager is psychology.

For this group, because we have so many big personalities, I think the manager also has to have a big personality but in a way that sort of knows how to deal with everything.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom.

We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

It is your differences that make you glorious.

The thing I like the best, especially being a parent of so many kids, Is that they're all so different. You love them all equally, but they're all so different from each other and that's the cool thing, to see their personalities start to develop and see how unique and different they all are and to be able to love them in their own unique ways. It's really, really, really special.

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.