Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

Better never than late.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presenting the campaign to read everything aloud to test the phrasing and concept. If I could grasp it quickly, then it passed with muster. We would get our message across only if it was understandable at first glance.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

One must steer, not talk.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!