Stop Talking, Start Communicating Quotes

“Implement a 60-Second Rule”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“Give and Accept Apologies Quickly”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“Assume Good Intentions”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“Let Go”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“Conversational Shock Absorbers”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“Being magnanimous is better for your underlying relationship than being right.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“The ultimate reward for improving your communication is that good communication = good relationships = good life.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“Less talking provides the vital space that productive and meaningful conversations require.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“listen like every sentence matters, talk like every word counts, and act like every interaction is important.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“Quick communication discourages reflection and thoughtfulness and is notoriously error prone; cheap communication provides little or no incentive to get the message right the first time; and easy communication has fooled us into thinking that interactions require little or no effort.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“Many of us have a nagging sense that it’s getting harder to communicate well, to prevent our quick-draw tongues from saying harmful things, or to stop our fingers from hammering out impulsive messages. And we’re right.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“A little Internet browsing and a few marginally important e-mails never ruined anyone’s life strategy. But we’re not really talking about a little and a few. The Internet inflicts strategic death with a thousand clicks, a thousand seconds of distraction that pile up day after day, supplanting the things we want to do with the things we have a hard time resisting.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza

“we need to listen like every sentence matters, talk like every word counts, and act like every interaction is important.”
― Geoffrey Tumlin, Stop Talking, Start Communicating: Counterintuitive Secrets to Success in Business and in Life, with a foreword by Martha Mendoza