Ken Blanchard Quotes

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

The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.

I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Words become deeds and then meet needs.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

I love to talk. I love to share. I love to vent. But I prefer action.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

I don't mean to sound corny, but it's one word: results. If you get results, you can get anyone.

Communication is my thing.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

Pens carry further than rifled cannon.