Mike Pompeo Quotes

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

I say what I mean. I don't speak in code. That's why I am a star and ace communicator.

You try to make every word count, so there's no doubt what you're talking about. When you're young, you waffle away. Well, I'm done with that. I think it's much more interesting to say just what you mean.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

I don't feel like I have to use big words or theories to get my point across. People are like, "Whoa. That's crazy" and make it into this crazy thing.

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Less is almost always better than more. Short words, short sentences, short speeches.

I'm a very direct person just generally. I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily. I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it and go on to the next thing.

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

The best things - when I really feel that I'm communicating, and when I really feel that people are getting it - are simple, straightforward recipes. I think simple is the hardest to achieve because you don't have all those elements to hide behind.

I work on the assumption that in the crowded mass communication field today you have to get in and get out with your message as quickly and simply as possible. You must communicate the maximum with a single glance.

I'm very direct, I don't believe in wasting time, in wasting words.

I like people who tell you what they think straight away instead of going around in circles.