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

  John C. Maxwell

  Growth, Depth, Mythology

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

  Claud Cockburn

  Cash, Underestimate, Bribe

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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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• 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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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Teamwork, Kids

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

  Andre Maurois

  Progression, Increase, Interruptions

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• The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  Memories, Numbers, Wish

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• Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Death, Destroying, Function

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.248, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

  Luis Bunuel

  Art, Powerful, Responsibility

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• 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.

  Katherine Harris

  Effort, Attention, Pay

  "Katherine Harris Discusses Her Senate Run". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. August 9, 2005.

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