"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most,it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
William Wordsworth
130 Top-Notch Quotes about Communication
"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know."
André Maurois, born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
(26 July 1885, – 9 October 1967) was a French author.
"Listen to many, speak to a few."
William Shakespeare
(baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the
English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
"When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."
Thomas Jefferson
(April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the
third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the
Declaration of Independence (1776). Jefferson was one of the most influential
Founding Fathers, known for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the
United States.
"When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
William Wrigley, Jr.
(September 30, 1861–January 26, 1932) was a U.S. chewing gum industrialist. He was founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891.
"Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say."
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
(August 19, 1919 – February 24, 1990) was publisher of Forbes magazine, founded by his father B.C. Forbes and today
run by his son Steve Forbes.
"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."
Frank Tyger
(1929-2011) editorial cartoonist, columnist and humorist for the Times of Trenton.
"To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
Benjamin "Ben" Jonson
(c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor
"It's not what you say, it's what people hear."
Frank I. Luntz
(born February 23, 1962) is an American political consultant, pollster, and Republican Party strategist.
"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence."
Spanish proverb
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"One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid."
Jonathan Swift
(30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
