Effective Communication Quotes

I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.

The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

I never use my sword when the lash suffices, nor the lash when my tongue is enough.

… the thug is aware that loudness convinces 60 persons where reasoning convinces but one..

Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Apple is very, very good at almost everything it does, and that includes corporate communications.

Her beauty was not in itself quite incomparable, we are told...but conversation with her had an irresistible charm. Her presence, combined with the persuasiveness of her discourse and the character which was somehow diffused about her behavior towards others, had something stimulating about it …. she could readily turn to whatever language she pleased, so that in her interviews with barbarians she seldom had need of an interpreter, but mostly made her replies unaided, whether the men were Ethiopians, Hebrews, Arabians, Syrians, Medes, or Persians.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.