Effective Quotes

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

Leadership, Making, Results

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

Laughter, Human, Race

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Power, Fear

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
Ralph Marston

Positive, Done, Before

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain

May, Word, Pause

Effective action is always unjust.
Maya Angelou

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mahatma Gandhi

Sacrifice, Law, Uniform

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle

Character, May, Means

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington

Peace, War, Means

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Sorry, Him

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

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey

Leadership, Discipline, Management

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Daniel Goleman

Smart, Emotional, Matter

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost

Power, Control, Violence

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney

Life, Inner, Remains

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Self, Belief

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

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Elbert Hubbard

Art, Business, Science

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais

Love, Words, Attractive

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama

War, Cannot, Succeed

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

Business, Simple, Difficult

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey

Life, Trust, Principle

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

Death, Children, Him

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James

Life, Knowledge, Through

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
Hubert H. Humphrey

True, Propaganda, Credible

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

Action, Reflection, Quiet

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz

Life, Happiness, Courage

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

Simple, Everyone, Fact

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
Thomas Sowell

Money, Society, Knowledge

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