Quotes About Effectiveness

We've been using vaccination in some form for hundreds of years now. We have almost nothing in our modern medicine that we've been using that long, and it's been consistently productive even though, you know, the older vaccines were much more dangerous than vaccines we're using now.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

I think kindness is actually under-rated. Especially with Silicon Valley - and probably in business in general - it's seen as being a pushover or ineffective as a leader.

As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional - your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The unit of effectiveness of education is not the individual but the group. An individual's moral values are primarily important for society as they contribute to a moral social climate, not as they induce particular pieces of behavior.

better idea would be to keep the same number of staff you have now and invest in high upside-leverage "performance enhancement" training, which would result in those same employees becoming as much as 50 to 100 percent more effective.

Answers of less than 30 seconds are generally insufficient, but answers over three minutes are too long.

Avoid the worst months for direct mail: March, May, and June; the best months are January, February, and October. The period January through March is best for business direct mail.

The best place, although relatively expensive, is the back page of a newspaper or magazine—where response can be as much as 150 percent greater than from the same ad inside the publication.

Ratings are virtually meaningless with only two spots a week. It

There is no more evidence of the effectiveness of advertising than of the existence of God.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!