50 Email Quotes About the Modern Communication Method

By Stephanie Kirby

Writer, Entrepreneur and Inspirational quote curator

Published June 14, 2023

Email has impacted our work and personal lives, as seen in these email quotes.

Email is short for “electronic mail” and is the method of sending or receiving communication through electronic devices.

Email works by sending messages from one electronic device to another through the internet.

While emails were sent from stationary computers when they first became available, today, emails can be sent from desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and even smartwatches.

It was initially anticipated that email would replace much of the traditional mail.

While it hasn’t eliminated mail, it has grown to be an integral part of business and personal life with the quick and easy communication it provides.

Today email is used to send messages, pictures, contracts, and much more.

Take a few minutes to review these email quotes to see just how important email has become to our everyday lives.

Best Email Quotes

Enjoy some of the best quotes revolving around emails.

1. “I’m really good at email.” — Elon Musk

2. “A fun person would send a thank-you email.” — Sally Rooney

3. “Your email greetings should warm readers up—not put them off.” — Dianna Booher

4. “Be with someone who emails you when you switch off Social media.” — Sarvesh Jain

5. “Treat your subject line like the movie trailer – give a preview so they know what to expect.” — Mailer Lite

6. “Whatever you can say in a meeting, you can put in an email. If I have questions, I’ll tell you via email.” — Mark Cuban

7. “I want to do business with a company that treats emailing me as a privilege, not a transaction.” — Andrea Mignolo

8. “Cellaholics are those who interrupt quality time when they are with you, but rather text, call, and email others who are somewhere else.” — Jayce O’Neal

9. “People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We’re losing all of our communication skills.” — Tracy Morgan

10. “People get too many messages, which they do not have time to read. This also means that the really important messages are difficult to find in the large flow of less important messages.” — Jacob Palme

Email Quotes to End Your Email With

Consider ending your next email with one of these quotes.

11. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” — Ginni Rometty

12. “The more we do, the more we can do.” — William Hazlitt

13. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain

14. “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” — Sarah Brown

15. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

16. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou

17. “I’d rather regret the risk that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” — Simone Biles

18. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs

19. “Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do.” — Bob Goff

20. “The most successful entrepreneurs I know are optimistic. It’s part of the job description.” — Caterina Fake

Email Quotes About Communication

Keeping in touch with customers or friends is important and can be done via email.

21. “Know when to email vs. when to meet.” — Justin Rosenstein

22. “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.” — Garrison Keillor

23. “The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.” — Tom Fishburne

24. “Reaching the inbox isn’t your goal – engaging people is.” — Matt Blumberg

25. “As I often lecture businesses, it is not the email you send which matters, but how people feel when they read it.” — Katie Hopkins

26. “We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.” — Thomas Beecham

27. “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” — Steve Jobs

28. “Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn’t know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren’t emailing each other.” — Mark Batterson

29. “With this ‘social media,’ instead of letters, you get emails. They’re all written in a hurry, with no punctuation, no paragraphs – it’s one continual stream, with spelling mistakes.” — Dennis Skinner

30. “We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.” — Mokokoma Mokokoma

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Email Quotes About Emails

Take a look at these quotes about emails.

31. “It’s quicker, easier, and involves less licking.” — Douglas Adams

32. “Email is the way of the past, present, and future.” — Trevor Carss

33. “One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus.” — Jacqueline Leo

34. “I do love email. Wherever possible, I try to communicate asynchronously.” — Elon Musk

35. “Email has an ability many channels don’t: creating valuable, personal touches – at scale.” — David Newman

36. “When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That’s how you end up checking email all day Saturday.” — Tim Ferriss

37. “The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply.” — Arkady Martine

38. “Quality over quantity – Emails may be cost-efficient, but it’s no excuse to not produce quality content to give to a targeted audience.” — Benjamin Murray

39. “Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media.” — Caroline Ghosn

40. “Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.” — Gretchen Rubin

Email Quotes About Marketing

Here are some quotes about email marketing.

41. “Make the customer the hero of your story.” — Ann Handley

42. “90% of marketing doesn’t work because it doesn’t get done.” — Neil Bradman

43. “Customers don’t sign up for email – they sign up for your brand.” — Bob Frady

44. “Personalization—it is not about first/last name. It’s about relevant content.” — Dan Jak

45. “Use low commitment CTAs. Emails are invites; landing pages are parties.” — Matt Byrd

46. “How to write a good email: 1. Write your email. 2. Delete most of it. 3. Send.” — Dan Munz

47. “When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” — David Ogilvy

48. “Open, click, and unsubscribe rates are pretty poor measures for email engagement.” — Jordie van Rijn

49. “Focus on growing your list all of the time as newer subscribers are more engaged, adding to healthier open rates and ROI.” — Karl Murray

50. “To get the right message to the right person at the right time, you first need to get the right data to the right database at the right time.” — John Caldwell