#Effectiveness Quotes

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

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

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

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

“A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.”

“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.”

“Truth in our ideas means their power to work.”

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

“[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.”

“Real action is in silent moments.”

“You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.”

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

“If it works, it's true.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop”

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

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