Quotes About Storytelling In Business

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.

Amy Weber

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

Luis Cubero

#5. In a swordfight, a man's surest defense is the swift stroke that slays his foe, not cringing behind a shield.

George R R Martin

#6. 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

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

Luis Cubero

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

John C. McGinley

#13. In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.

Enrique Iglesias

#14. Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

John Lydon

#15. When you believe what you know, you love.

John De Ruiter

#16. People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

Gallagher

#17. Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

Warren Buffett

#18. Your entire presentation is the story.

Luis Cubero

#19. I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

Terry McAuliffe

#20. Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

Georgia Douglas Johnson

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

Gary Vaynerchuk

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#23. Choose your battles, but don't choose very many.

Colleen Hoover

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

John Le Carre

#27. ( ... ) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.

Andrzej Wajda

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

Martin Shaw

#29. Why are our inner lives so important? One reason is because our thoughts determine our actions.

Billy Graham

#30. 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

#31. The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

John Ridley

#32. But honestly? What women need?" Dean paused to take a sip of his coffee. "Actions. Not words. Sorry doesn't mean shit, begging doesn't mean shit, and promises don't mean shit.

Priscilla Glenn