Effective Quotes

All good Presidents are supple.

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

Congress does investigations better than they do any thing else. Let them do that…. The people of Louisiana don’t want anyone’s head. They want everyone’s help.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

The simple things can be really powerful.

You've got to lead from a position of strength.

Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

What is the purpose of the government? When you examine most political debates, you usually find that question at the bedrock. What makes a government good? What makes one effective? What is government supposed to do, and what shouldn’t it do? The reason we disagree so much about politics is often because we hold different theories about what the purpose of government is.

Learn every day, but especially from the experiences of others. It's cheaper!

As a goalkeeper, Van der Sar can do everything. He is very good at coming off his line, and he is also effective as a libero - what they call in England a 'sweeper keeper.'

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

I had ministers who were just outstandingly good.

it is a perfect weapon

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Whom we wish to talk to is as important as what we say.

Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

Make the important interesting.

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

The status quo is working.

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times; but when once it becomes monopolistic it is the most perfect instrument for tyranny which has yet been devised. Freedom of thought in the middle ages was combated by the Inquisition, but the modern method is far more effective.’ (1923)