Top 100 Quotes About Effectiveness
#2. No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.
Edward Whitacre Jr.
#3. it's easy to confuse progress with effectiveness. All progress is not true progress. It's possible to gain ground for many days, weeks, months, or even years but be going in a completely wrong direction. That's
Todd Henry
#4. Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
William Arthur Ward
#5. The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
Omar N. Bradley
#6. At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
John Hutton
#7. Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.
Robert Genn
#8. A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#9. Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration ... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."
Peter Drucker
#10. Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.
Jay Inslee
#11. Work-life balance, work-life effectiveness, personal and professional satisfaction - or whatever you choose to call it - is not an entitlement or benefit. Your company cannot give it to you. You have to create it for yourself. You are personally responsible for living the best life you can.
Matthew Kelly
#12. As with any new skill, attitude, style, or belief, adopting a coaching ethos requires commitment, practice, and some time before it flows naturally and its effectiveness is optimized.
John Whitmore
#13. Biblical spirituality means powerlessness, living without embellishment or pretense, free to be faithful in the gospel, and free from anxiety about effectiveness or similar illusions of success.
William Stringfellow
#14. An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#15. Sales is an experiment - there's no right or wrong, just varying degrees of effectiveness. Our job is to constantly seek ways we can increase our effectiveness.
Jill Konrath
#16. To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
Robert M. Pirsig
#17. True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
Stephen Covey
#18. The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.
Edward S. Herman
#19. Human beings long for connection, and our sense of usefulness derives from the feeling of connectedness. When we are connected - to our own purpose, to the community around us, and to our spiritual wisdom - we are able to live and act with authentic effectiveness.
Michael Meade
#20. A terrific, stimulating book ... Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness of global foreign aid.
Jerry Sabloff
#21. The problem is, the rewards and the costs of adding more things to the Home page aren't shared equally. The section that's being promoted gets a huge gain in traffic, while the overall loss in effectiveness of the Home page as it gets more cluttered is shared by all sections.
Steve Krug
#22. The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.
David Brooks
#23. The ironic thing is that marketers have responded to this problem with the single worst cure possible. To deal with the clutter and the diminished effectiveness of Interruption Marketing, they're interrupting us even more!
Seth Godin
#24. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
Peter F. Drucker
#25. The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads.
Gian Fulgoni
#26. Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.
Eric Liu
#27. If you can listen to yourself and obey yourself more, then you have increased your chances for attaining personal effectiveness.
Archibald Marwizi
#28. The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth
Eric Hoffer
#29. And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
Harvey Pekar
#30. We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.
Sandy Carter
#31. Efficiency is about doing things right. Effectiveness is about doing the right things.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#32. The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.
Douglas B. Reeves
#33. I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.
David O. McKay
#34. The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.
R.A. Torrey
#35. Dedication to work is the key to effectiveness and fruitfulness.
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our educational systems
Ken Robinson
#37. The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Andre Maurois
#38. It's not that achievements prove our worth but rather that the process of achieving is the means by which we develop our effectiveness, our competence at living.
Nathaniel Branden
#40. Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.
Bruce Lee
#41. Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives.
Craig Groeschel
#42. Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.
Virginia Foxx
#43. One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.
Brian Tracy
#44. As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
Ben Bradlee
#45. History will judge the war against Iraq not by the brilliance of its military execution, but by the effectiveness of the post-hostilities activities.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
#46. Your listening, not your speaking, is your most direct access to leadership effectiveness.
Al Ritter
#47. The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
Jon Wynne-Tyson
#48. There is no problem this universe can hand you that you aren't innately designed to solve. If it has been handed to you, it can be handled by you. This is the brilliant effectiveness of our design.
Steve Maraboli
#49. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.
Pearl Zhu
#50. CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
Heather Brooke
#51. The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.
Theodore Roosevelt
#52. It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.
Evan Davis
#53. There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension.
Stephen Covey
#54. Your core values affect your day to day behavior and effectiveness as a leader.
Mark G. Miller
#55. The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.
H.L. Mencken
#56. A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.
Duncan Hunter
#57. One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#58. Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.
Emil Theodor Kocher
#59. The subject of this book is managing oneself for effectiveness.
Peter F. Drucker
#60. We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem
William McDonough
#61. The secret of effectiveness is to know what really counts, then do what really counts, and not worry about all the rest.
Rick Warren
#62. President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.
Edward Brooke
#63. The effectiveness of your ministry to people will be in direct proportion to the time you spend away from people and with God in a quiet time of preparation.
Elizabeth George
#64. Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.
Walter Brueggemann
#65. The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.
Vilfredo Pareto
#66. since they deal with matters that are the centre of conflict of opposing social groups where the effectiveness of an argument is often contingent upon oversimplification.
Sidin Vadukut
#67. A performance dashboard is a practical tool to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, not just a pretty retrospective picture in an annual report.
Pearl Zhu
#68. Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.
Ayn Rand
#69. Much as I would like to give out as much as I can, I do recognize that my resources are not unlimited, and therefore, it is imperative that we are able to determine the sustainability and effectiveness of the causes we support. In so doing, we can ensure that our resources are put to the best use.
Vincent Tan
#70. I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prosperity, provided (and that is the important point) they are so naturally, by the effectiveness of industry, and not in consequence of an inflated currency or any artificial regulation.
John C. Calhoun
#71. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.
Margaret Chan
#72. When it comes to measuring the effectiveness of your engagement in the social media environment what counts are: Comments and Sentiment.
David Amerland
#73. Despite the continual rise of the knowledge worker over the last 60 years, we haven't done enough to question "how we've always done things" and redefine effectiveness in organizations.
Crystal Kadakia
#74. Collective leadership effectiveness drives business performance.
William A. Adams
#75. Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
Milton Friedman
#77. Exercise must become a regular part of your day or personal effectiveness system. Do not wait to start exercising because you want to lose weight or because the doctor has given you some scary update on your health. Exercise to keep fit and stay healthy. It's not too late to start now.
Archibald Marwizi
#78. Before we talk about further accessions, we have to consolidate the European Union internally. People are increasingly losing faith in the EU's effectiveness.
Martin Schulz
#79. To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
Stephen R. Covey
#80. Not forgiving interferes with the effectiveness of your prayer life (Mark 11:25).
Stormie O'martian
#81. important components of the management system. It is the process by which top management reviews the effectiveness of the system and analyzes the performance of the organization.
Craig Cochran
#82. Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?
Barbara Deming
#83. If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
Elaine MacDonald
#84. Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them "right," with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.
William McDonough
#85. During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes.
Gunnar Myrdal
#86. These two principles correspond to the two areas of effectiveness that we've encountered: personal leadership and personal management. "Know what's most important" is the arena of personal leadership; "put it first and actually do it" is the arena of personal management.
Matt Perman
#87. If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.
Tony Campolo
#88. And regulation entails organizational effectiveness, a chain of command, and a structure for logistical support.
Sun Tzu
#90. And it is a great fact of history that the most mediocre and well-meaning imbeciles can strike down the mighty with surprising effectiveness when there is such a huge disparity of souls.
Anne Rice
#91. You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.
Flannery O'Connor
#92. Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#93. But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.
Lee Smolin
#94. The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.
Morton Blackwell
#95. Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
Michael Porter
#96. The priority has to be set for lifting IT and overall business maturity from efficiency to effectiveness to agility.
Pearl Zhu
#97. But the only thing of value the church has to offer is the gospel. I believe that one result of the emerging Experience Economy will be a longing for authenticity. To the extent that the church stages worldly experiences, it will lose its effectiveness.
Skye Jethani
#98. Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.
Peter Drucker
#99. If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
Ralph Marston
#100. The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.
Andy Stanley
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