Communications Quotes

• The sacrifices of our people were very great. Out of a population of one million, 28,000 were killed, 12,600 wounded, 10,000 were made political prisoners in Italy and Germany, and 35,000 made to do forced labour, of ground; all the communications, all the ports, mines and electric power installations were destroyed, our agriculture and livestock were plundered, and our entire national economy was wrecked.

  

  Enver Hoxha
  • Economy
  • Population
  • Labour

• The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.

  

  Will Burtin
  • Design
  • Problems
  • Possible

• Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Technology
  • Investment
  • Commerce

• To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.

  

  Aliza Sherman
  • Saying
  • Social Media
  • Communications

• Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Culture
  • Achievement
  • Mediocre

• I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.'

  

  Elizabeth A. Johnson
  • Communications
  • Vegetable
  • Potato

• Fashion, in a way, has become like pop culture today. With all of the communications and the Internet and the designers doing lines with big brands, it's more popular than it's ever been, but everything is all mixed together. It's become like television or music.

  

  Nicolas Ghesquiere
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Communications

• I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

  

  Richie Havens
  • Business
  • Communications

• The experience of being able to search back over all your team's communications for, in our case, millions of messages, is super-valuable. But you don't know what that's like until you actually have it.

  

  Stewart Butterfield
  • Team
  • Messages
  • Communications

• Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Decide
  • Jealous
  • Communications

• The most prevalent critique of modern communications is that we are “always connected.” But the problem isn’t that we’re always connected; we’re not. The problem is that we’re always buffered. The difference is enormous.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Problem
  • Communications
  • Critique

• Recently I have been spending my lunch with other game directors playing over local connection battle in Spirit Tracks. It is very good to do that in order to facilitate better communications between us. I have been partnering with the director of the Spirit Tracks to fight against the director of the new Wii game and yes, recently we have been winning!

  

  Eiji Aonuma
  • Game
  • Winning
  • Battle

• The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their communications outreach efforts to the voters’ changing media habits.

  

  Neil Newhouse
  • Shows
  • Media
  • Changing

• It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

  

  Roberto Civita
  • Consider
  • Communications
  • Indefinitely

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