Effectiveness Quotes

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.

What is fruitful alone is true.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think makes you more effective at what you do.

The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.

Well done is better than well said.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.

In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'

The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

The sooner you act, the bigger difference you can make.

Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Never confuse movement with action.

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

Real action is in silent moments.

Never mistake movement for action

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

Ideas without action are useless.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

You can be effective in this world without stress.

Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well.

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

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

I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

Effective action is always unjust.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party votes gets him 2 to 1 in the house, you know that somehow a message isn't getting out. It takes real leadership.

There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.