Eliot Spitzer Quotes

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.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

Just in a professional world, sometimes a phone call is definitely more meaningful than a text.

I just always believed that all comments are better face-to-face, whether they're derogatory or whether they're not.

It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

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.

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

It's important to look people in the eye and have direct conversations. I actually have a rule that if an issue takes more than five sentences to explain it, don't send an email. Pick up the phone instead, because it'll take less time to resolve it.

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

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

The more you say, the less people remember.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

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

Before you speak, listen.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.