Poor Communication Quotes

The trouble with General Hooker is that he has his headquarters where his hindquarters ought to be.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

I am turned off when I see only formulas and symbols, and little text.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

My main frustration is that NJ Transit continually misleads the residents of South Jersey.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others.

I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

I have found in my years of working in the government than when I face a choice of explanations of venality or incompetence in explaining some government activities, it is almost always incompetence that explains it. It often appears to be venality because we do not realize how incompetent government and large private organizations can be sometimes.

Democrats have been acting like the proverbial American tourist in France, trying to get their point across by shouting louder in a language only they understand.

I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.

When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there's gray areas, then bad things happen.

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring

Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.