Communication Leadership Quotes

#1. Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.

Bradford Winters

#2. The Tone is the Message.

Kevin T. McCarney

#3. James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Harold Holzer

#4. Effectively clear communication is crucial to a transformational leadership while poor communication is its biggest enemy.

Farshad Asl

#5. Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.

Kevin Murray

#6. It is common understanding that communication is at the heart of any organisation. So, why have organisational models not evolved accordingly? To truly leverage the potential of this information age, we need to rethink and redesign organisations

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#7. I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Ronald Reagan

#8. Selling and teaching demand that you develop your intrapersonal and interpersonal communication skills. You must be able to communicate with yourself as well as with others in a way that makes them buy your offering or benefit from the knowledge you want to impart.

Archibald Marwizi

#9. Over-communicating is the glue that holds a high-performing team together and keeps them focused in the same direction. And, it circles back to clarity. Without good, consistent communication, you don't have clarity.

Lee Ellis

#10. Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

David Brooks

#11. A shoulder clap is more appropriate in a business setting. But the underlying principle holds: touch more than the majority of people would in the same context. It demonstrates comfort, leadership, and conviction in your communication skills.

Charlie Houpert

#12. Effective leadership begins with effective communication.

Asa Don Brown

#13. Communication is the sister of leadership

John Adair

#14. A more consistent and sustainable relationship with China will be a core goal of my administration. That requires open channels of communication, both with China's leadership and the Taiwanese people.

Tsai Ing-wen

#15. A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.

Tony Dovale

#16. The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

Nikita Khrushchev

#17. In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

Ron Suskind

#18. In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

John Harvey-Jones

#19. You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.

David Cottrell

#20. We'll never solve the problems we don't talk about.

Justin Young

#21. High Performance Teams create cultures of caring, connection, commitment, collaboration and clear consistent communication

Tony Dovale

#22. Radio was theater of the mind.

Ronald Reagan

#23. A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.

Orly Wahba

#24. Print, it transpired, was not just an instrument of agitation and change: now it was equally necessary to win the peace.

Andrew Pettegree

#25. Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

John C. Maxwell

#26. Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Claude Taylor

#27. Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear.

Krishna Saagar

#28. I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

Ronald Reagan

#29. Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.

Farshad Asl

#30. Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

Eugene H. Peterson

#31. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

Kirsten Siggins

#32. The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

Greg Carlson

#33. One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

John P. Kotter

#34. A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Richard Brookhiser

#35. Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#36. Clarity leads to attention and attention leads to results.

Henry Cloud

#37. At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.

Biz Stone

#38. Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

#39. Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

Andrew Griffin

#40. We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Oli Anderson

#41. We commend the commission, under the leadership of Chairman Martin, for recognizing the reality of today's communications marketplace and for fostering an environment where there will be greater choice in communications services and providers.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#42. The concert we give is winning. And if all the people in our organization whose instrument is scouting of player development or major league scouting or player knowledge, all play well, we're going to have the most beautiful symphony of success. And I think we have.

John Schuerholz

#43. I am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are trying to make their way into the leadership. In addition, it is vitally important to maintain the lines of communication with Germany through Poland.

Konstantin Rokossovsky

#44. If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

David Halberstam

#45. All power lies in free expression.

Krishna Sagar

#46. For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

Andrew Griffin

#47. Let's get busy. Get up! Stop living an average life. Stop living in a rut. Get ready for a new way to walk and talk. Taller, louder, prouder and thoroughly convinced that you have enough hope in your life to give some away.

J. Loren Norris

#48. A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.

Tony Dovale

#49. We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.

Kip Tindell

#50. Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Ron Suskind

#51. Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

John C. Maxwell

#52. The art of communication is the language of leadership.

James Humes

#53. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.

Oli Anderson

#54. When you have nothing to say, don't.

Krishna Saagar

#55. Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.

Graham Speechley

#56. The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

Winston Churchill

#57. If we don't communicate, we certainly can't get much done and if we don't communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

Michele Jennae

#58. Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

Peter Cosgrove

#59. Although leaders and followers are closely linked, it is the leader who often initiates the relationship, creates the communication linkages, and carries the burden for maintaining the relationship.

Peter Northouse

#60. Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison in anticipation that it would help him lead the whole of South Africa.

Robert Lane Greene

#61. Communication is the real work of leadership.

Nitin Nohria

#62. When you feel good about the value you offer the organization, communicating and demonstrating your value to others is much easier.

Bonnie Marcus

#63. People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.

Anita Roddick