Quotes About Business Communication

#1. After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.

Jim Barksdale

#2. The bar on business communication is set so low that there are almost no entry-level requirements other than being a living human being

Mark Bowden

#3. With Android I get to choose from many different products from many different phone manufacturers. With iOS, I get what Apple gives me. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's not always the best fit for my personal or business communication needs.

Mark Cuban

#4. Three criteria to inspire as well as cultivate intercultural trust - sincerity, competence and reliability.

Sherwood Fleming

#5. We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.

Robert Townsend

#6. There are four-letter words you should never use in business. They're not fuck or shit. They're need, must, can't, easy, just, only and fast. These words gets in the way of healthy communication

Jason Fried

#7. Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

Billy Bob Thornton

#8. 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

#9. I have a theory that sometimes people think they need to talk as much as possible, almost as if talking more equates to knowing more.

Mary Mihalic

#10. But developing relationships with coworkers - your peers, superiors, and subordinates - is incredibly important, perhaps even the most important thing you'll do at work, and this is completely dependent on your communication skills.

Scribendi

#11. Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

Criss Jami

#12. Communication, collaboration, and creativity are the keys to run IT as a better business partner.

Pearl Zhu

#13. 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

#14. Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.

Mike Tyson

#15. 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

#16. I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

Eric Schmidt

#17. NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy and counseling, diplomatic and business negotiations, disputes and conflicts of any nature.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#18. 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

#19. The biggest cause of serious error in this business is a failure of communication,

Atul Gawande

#20. Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#21. Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal.

Dianna Booher

#22. Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.

Dale Ludwig

#23. I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.

Jeff Dunham

#24. The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience. The whole tendency of modern communication ... is towards participation in a process, rather than apprehension of concepts.

Marshall McLuhan

#25. If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

David Belasco

#26. Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.

John Dewey

#27. Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

Joseph Badaracco

#28. Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

Stephen L. Carter

#29. It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he
or she
is traveling abroad.

Viviane Reding

#30. Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.

T. Boone Pickens

#31. Code formatting is important. It is too important to ignore and it is too important to treat religiously. Code formatting is about communication, and communication is the professional developer's first order of business.

Robert C. Martin

#32. To reboot your association for success, you must shift your beliefs to realize how vitally important key investments in technology can be as an ongoing and personalized communication tool with your members.

Holly Duckworth

#33. We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn't it be easier to just call them conversations? That's really what they are.

Dale Ludwig

#34. Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales ...

Honeya

#35. We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

Keith Ferrazzi

#36. It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

Paul Watson

#37. It's hard to hold a conversation with people when you're not seeing them.

Dale Ludwig

#38. Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Peter Drucker

#39. I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.

David Horsey

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

Andrew Griffin

#41. A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

Dale Ludwig

#42. Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.

Sara Sheridan

#43. 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

#44. That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

Morrissey

#45. Be cohesive in your dealings. Trust built on and from mutual support, facilitating communication and encouraging coordination can be rewarding.

Ogwo David Emenike

#46. Business capabilities enable strategic communication and execution' it's part of art and part of science.

Pearl Zhu

#47. An organization with excellent internal communication will run smoothly, allowing its members to progress toward a mutual goal, which will ultimately affect the quality of external communication.

Scribendi

#48. The best advertising and the best communication when it comes to business is that which makes you smile, that which makes you think, that which makes you ponder.

Frank Luntz

#49. Well-designed visuals do more than provide information; they bring order to the conversation.

Dale Ludwig

#50. Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

David Allen

#51. You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace too. Make a difference!

Sudakshina Bhattacharjee

#52. Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.

Dale Ludwig

#53. 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

#54. Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

Fred Wilson

#55. When preparing a presentation, it's never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you're focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.

Dale Ludwig

#56. Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.

Dianna Booher

#57. I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

Lee Iacocca

#58. Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Dianna Booher

#59. Intercultural business contexts force us to be more self-aware and to rely on words more than we do in our native cultures.

Sherwood Fleming

#60. Communication is the key for any global business.

Anita Roddick

#61. I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

Richie Havens

#62. Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations.

Josh Hunt

#63. When you withhold trust within intercultural business contexts, how are you making the decision to not trust someone?

Sherwood Fleming

#64. The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

Richard Branson

#65. Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist's drill.

John Treasure

#66. Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

Mary Mihalic

#67. IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you're talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

Ratan Tata

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

Andrew Griffin

#69. During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

Dale Ludwig

#70. Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools.

Ruchi Sanghvi

#71. Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.

Richard Branson

#72. It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.

Edmund Burke