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Management Quotes: Management Communication

• I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. --Tom Lehrer
• An after-dinner speech should be like a lady's dress-long enough to cover the subject and short enough to be interesting. Richard Austen Butler, politician
• Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are. -- Alford
• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous
• The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous
• There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous
• The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings
• The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge
• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi
• Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara
• When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway
• The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard
• Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley
• Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec
• I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln
• Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin
• He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill
• We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa
• It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins
• The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw
• He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith
• If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler
• Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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