Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

Bob Ross

If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.

Aravind Adiga

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Brian Tracy

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

Ayn Rand

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

Andy Stanley

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

Don Tapscott

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

Claud Cockburn

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

Alvin Adams

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

Andre Maurois

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Billy Corgan

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

Marvin Bower

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

Gloria Steinem

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

Jerry Goldsmith

You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account

Evan Davis

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness.

Chrissie Hynde

The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.

Gifford Pinchot

The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Michael Shermer

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

Michael Porter

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

Michael Porter

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Theodore Roosevelt

The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.

George Bernard Shaw

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

George Bernard Shaw

Style is effectiveness of assertion.

George Orwell

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

George Nethercutt

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

Sun Tzu

And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support.

Frank Gaffney

Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan was committed to assuring the effectiveness of our nuclear deterrent.

Katherine Harris

We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.

Martin Luther

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

Peter Drucker

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."