Presentations Quotes

“During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.”

“When preparing a presentation, it’s never a good idea to begin with a rule. If you do, you’re focusing on the appearance of good delivery and not the effect of it.”

“In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience.”

“Her favorite stepping-aside technique was to lay out a dizzying mountain of complex steps and then pronounce the conclusion self-evident. Excuse me? Things that are self-evident don't need you or the presentation anyway. Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.”

“Every successful start-up is built on four pillars. Team, Idea, Passion & Presentations”

“I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.”

“Perfection is the enemy of authenticity.”

“It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.”

“Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.”