Peter Drucker Quotes

When I speak, I am well articulated.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

If you are knowledgeable about something and are able to talk about it, you should be able to express yourself.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.

If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.