Effectiveness Quotes

• If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Wall, Priorities In Life

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Trust, Teamwork

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

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

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Layers, Social, Increase

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Growth, Depth, Mythology

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• To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Motivational, Change, Women

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 03, 2013

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• Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.

  Rick Warren

  Success, Opportunity, Faces

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• Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

  Claud Cockburn

  Cash, Underestimate, Bribe

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• The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Basketball, Perseverance

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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  You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

  Seth Godin

  Success, People, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Seth Godin from Mar 21, 2014

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• Communication works for those who work at it.

  John Powell

  Work, Communication, Media

  John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr

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• Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Anger, Flying, Hammers

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• Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Efficiency, Synergy

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.

  Todd Hido

  Photography, Fall, Emotional

  "A conversation with Todd Hido". Interview with Joerg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. June 18, 2007.

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• To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Leadership, Integrity, Taken

  "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.

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• The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

  Ajahn Amaro

  Buddhist, Cutting, Thinking

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• They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development of others.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Women, Power, Support

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• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Past, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Marijuana, Years, Generations

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• 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.

  Ade Edmondson

  People, Doubt, Toilets

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

  Marvin Bower

  People, Principles, Boots

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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• 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.

  Peter Drucker

  Focus, Secret, Firsts

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