If you want to say something clever, you have only to talk long enough.

I think if you've got something to say and you can say it with less, that's the way to go.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.

I like to say something in as little time as possible…I don't think I have the fundamental confidence necessary to write a four-minute meandering song. Number one – because I'm impatient. But number two – because I've never been someone who is listened to. No one would stop to listen to me. I'm not a white guy noodling on a guitar for 45 minutes. No one would stay for me. I learned from a young age to be concise because there's a very small window for me to grab someone's attention.

So much time and so little to say..

Let your words be as few as will express the sense you wish to convey and above all let what you say be true. — Stonewall Jackson

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

For it is eloquence all the same whether few things are said in many words, or many things in few words.

How much time do you have?

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.