Quotes About Business Presentations

#1. 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.

Dale Ludwig

#2. Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either.

Dale Ludwig

#3. Well-designed visuals do more than provide information; they bring order to the conversation.

Dale Ludwig

#4. I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

Guy Maddin

#5. I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

Kevin Plank

#6. I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

Kris Carr

#7. A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process.

Dale Ludwig

#8. I did not want to die. More than that, I did not want to die as Ursula Monkton had died, beneath the rending talons and beaks of things that may not even have had legs or faces.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

Michael Caine

#10. 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.

Dale Ludwig

#11. Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.

Richard Eyre

#12. We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!

Avijeet Das

#13. It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

Mark Ruffalo

#14. As a scientific rationalist, Freud distrusts the manifest content of dreams.

Sigmund Freud

#15. Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).

R.C. Sproul

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

Ian Lamont

#17. To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

Rachel Kushner

#18. Being brave isn't not being afraid. Being brave is being afraid and going ahead and doing what you have to do.

S'TarKan

#19. There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.

Dean Ambrose

#20. I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

Peter Beard

#21. It's hard to hold a conversation with people when you're not seeing them.

Dale Ludwig

#22. We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn't it be easier to just call them conversations? That's really what they are.

Dale Ludwig

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

Dale Ludwig

#24. Art is not a mobocracy. It's a republic.

Richard Powers