Enzo Ferrari Quotes

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Less is almost always better than more. Short words, short sentences, short speeches.

I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads. That's why my belief is the briefer the brief is, the greater the sigh of the reader's relief is. And that's why your books have such power and strength. You publish with shorth! (Shorth is better than length.)

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Never say more than is necessary.

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

With few words, one can speak the truth.

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.