Professional Communication Quotes

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

Sometimes when our manager calls me and says certain things, we go, 'Oh God, we've gotta do that?'

I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.

Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please.'

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

You can't get a pay raise when you're angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.

It's very intimidating looking at the script and realizing that you have to say medical jargon as if you've said them a million times before, and they're just a part of your vocabulary. But that's what preparing is for, and you can't just really wing it. You've got to really know what you're doing.

My mistakes made were learning how to work with different groups of people. I mean, I went to school at Berkeley, which is a pretty diverse group, but working in a professional setting, I hadn't really done that before and learning about office politics, learning about interactions between different people and I made a lot of mistakes there during my time as a young person. I was 19 or 20 at the time. So, I would say those were my biggest career mistakes, but fortunately they were made in the context of an engineering co-op program and not in a professional field.

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

If there's something bothering me in the business end of things with people I work with, I just say it right out.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

I don't recommend that people speak their minds to their bosses or to somebody who's directly over them. You need to know when to speak your mind and what the penalty will be for doing so. Sometimes it's worth it, and often it's not!

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers.

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect.

I didn't speak English when I had my first job in motorsports.

I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie."

I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.