“Be brief, be brilliant, be gone.”
— Woodrow Wilson, President
“Seek to understand, before being understood.”
— J. Richard Clark, I heard this quote from Dan Henn, Cofounder of Statlab, while in the ETA class at Chicago Booth
“Anything worth communicating is almost always under-communicated.”
— Bill McDermott, Businessman, I read this in his book "Winners Dream", He is the godfather of value selling at SAP, currently CEO of ServiceNow
“Communicating is a lot like playing catch. Both the thrower and the catcher have a job to do, but how well you throw the ball will greatly influence whether or not it is caught."
— Bryan Malis, CoFounder of Altair Advisers, where I worked for 7.5 years, he told me this during a lunch we had