Effective Quotes

You want to know who's really underrated? It's Shawn Marion. He's just as effective as Steve Nash is for that team. If they didn't have him, they wouldn't have the same team. - Rick Adelman

You want to grow. To compete effectively -- even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position -- you look at who you're competing with. And everyone you're competing with is changing to get better, sometimes dramatically. - Tim Finchem

You need to take a look at each program, and see what's special about it. I believe DARE is effective in creating positive relationships of students with police officers who they see as someone you can go to for help. - Kathy Kawaguchi

You need to raise the money to run an effective campaign. People know that I've always been pretty transparent and that's why they give money to me. They trust me to run an honest government. - Barbara Perez

You need to challenge yourself every few years and say, 'Are we taking all the steps necessary to allow us to compete effectively? It may develop that you say, 'You know what? There's no better way to do it, so let's just leave it alone.' It's certainly easier to do that. But I think it's been good to challenge what we're doing, and I think the likelihood is we'll make some changes. - Tim Finchem

You need to be flexible in how you approach different groups. If a lot of your customers are younger, e-mail, text messaging or your website might be more effective; with older people, direct mail may work best. - Mike Gatti

You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people. - Charles Kennedy

You may see some fine-tuning of the president's program to make it more effective, to actually get more bang for the buck. But I think you'll see broad bipartisan support for targeting tax cuts and investment incentives and aid to the states and unemployed, to kind of provide us an insurance policy to get job creation moving. - Evan Bayh