Business Storytelling Quotes

#1. I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in my books at the end of the day you come across with the impression that I really admire both of these places.

John Gimlette

#2. I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .

John Gwynne

#3. In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

John Edgar Wideman

#4. The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Martin Shaw

#5. If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end ...

Angela Johnson

#6. If you have Jesus in your heart, you also have miracles of healing within your hands.

Marilyn Hickey

#7. I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

John Le Carre

#8. Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Alan Kay

#9. I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.

Oprah Winfrey

#10. I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#11. [Jesus said] If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples. And You will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free. - JOHN 8:31B-32

Joyce Meyer

#12. Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#13. ...writing allows us to reposition ourselves so we can see what is otherwise in our mental blind spots or those things about oneself and the world that we neither can see nor understand from the spot where we stand.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#14. Nothing is born, nothing dies.

Antoine Lavoisier

#15. Marriage was like death. You knew it'd happen eventually, but it wasn't something you dwelt on.

T. Kingfisher

#16. Your entire presentation is the story.

Luis Cubero

#17. As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do a work that has meaning. We have evolved to feel this way. Man's first thought was 'I AM'.

Bernadette Jiwa

#18. One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

Anita Roddick

#19. Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

Bradley Cooper

#20. As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business. I am a storyteller. Daydreaming is the best part of my job.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

Paula Cole

#22. An overflow of good converts to bad.

William Shakespeare

#23. I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.

Sparky Anderson

#24. When developing a business story, keep in mind that the opposition character (shadow) is just as important as the audience character (hero) is.

Luis Cubero

#25. We need to know the facts, in order to tell the politicians, "Excuse me, I don't want you to use my money on building a wall that is not going to solve any problems. We have to go this direction instead."

Demian Bichir

#26. Experience shows that, once you start using the business storytelling process, you are unlikely to return to your old methods.

Luis Cubero

#27. Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm bored to see TV. I never see TV. I see news sometimes. I'm sorry to say, I work in this business and I love working in it, but I haven't seen a movie in so many years.

Peter Stormare

#28. The focus of your presentation is the audience. You are missing the point if you focus on a product or your company.

Luis Cubero

#29. Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

Diane Ackerman

#30. Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

William Ralph Inge

#31. Since the opposition (shadow) is capable of preventing the audience (hero) from achieving success, the goal of a business narrative is to defeat the opposition (shadow).

Luis Cubero