Simon Sinek Quotes

Speak to men according to their mental capacities, for if you speak all things to all men, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors.

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

anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

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

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

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

Clarity of communication is important.

I speak English my way, but people understand it. You can understand everything I say, and that's the most important thing.

Never mistake legibility for communication.