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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

Marcus Buckingham

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Excel
Fixing
Strengths
Weaknesses
Weakness
Never
Maximizing

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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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