Effectiveness Quotes

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

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

The real achiever do one thing at a time.

We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.

In language clarity is everything.

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

What managers decide to stop doing is often more important than what they decide to do.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

If you have more than five goals, you have none.

For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

Knowledge is information that changes somethingor somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making anindividual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

You don't become an effective leader by default.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.