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COMMUNICATION QUOTES


Welcome! This collection of my favorite communication quotes is part of my Management & Leadership Quotes series.

Author/Contributor: Greg Parsons


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Good communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

- John Maxwell

Don’t just assume your employee team members know what’s expected of them. Tell them. And tell them again. Tell them in every way you can dream up, from memos, to posters on the bulletin board, to emails, to tweets, to one-on-one conversations. Leave no room for misunderstanding or contradiction. Consistency is vital.

- Lee Cockerell

Simplify your sentences. Ask yourself after each sentence and paragraph, “is there an easier way of expressing what I have written?

- Cy Charney

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

- Albert Einstein

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

- unknown

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

- William Butler Yeats

If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential.

- Warren Buffet