Presentation Quotes

In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements.

Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals.

Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions.

The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.

New research into cognitive functioning—how the brain works—proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information. Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.

In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.

... superb presentations - start by establishing "what is: here's the status quo." Then, they "compare that to what could be," making "that gap as big as possible" - Quoting Nancy Duarte

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

An event without a good presentation is like a pizza without cheese.

Like the evangelist, I will shine with the light I have been shown, recognise that I have the ultimate solution for all my prospects, nurture that feeling deep within, and repeat the words to myself every day, until there is no doubt in my mind that keeping such good news hidden would be the very worst type of sin.

A good presentation = Conviction + Story + Message. Subject does't matter.

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.

His belief is so passionate that it fills him with the burning desire to share his fabulous news with anyone who will listen. He is concerned that it is us that might be missing out, not him. His faith in a single road to salvation and paradise is so intense, that it would be ungodly not to share the good news with all those who are not aware.

Finding happiness by delivering it.

Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.

I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had.

Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what’s most important.

The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.

Trust the perception not the presentation.

Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success.

Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.

It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up with an excuse of an alternative from your lacklustre competition, should rest heavy on your conscience.

Meanwhile she's coldly interrogating me with her eyes. She's definitely in charge of this house and this moment. This must be Chloe.She escorts me to a table full of people and presents me. She introduces them briefly. This one's from Morocco, that one from Italy, he's Persian--I'm not exactly sure what that means--this one's from "the UK." They're all in their twenties, poised and dismissive. They don't know or care who I'm supposed to be at home or where I went to school. They're measuring something else I can't see and don't understand.They nod and turn back to each other. They seem to be waiting for a cue from Chloe to release them from having to feign interest. She introduces herself at substantially more length. Her father is Chinese and her mother is Swiss; she grew up in Hong Kong and "in Europe."I grew up in Michigan and in Michigan. But she didn't ask.

High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people.

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.

It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretationand they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.

You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.

In each generation, there is this certain wisdom of the ages that gets reburied in the fleeting drivels of modernity; then, like a diamond in the rough, it is yet again unearthed by a very small minority who not only restores it, but also polishes it and presents it as something new, something highly valuable and refreshing as understood by the current.

Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs.

Where he comes from, the education he has received, his family history, his wealth, they matter not a jot, but the perception he conveys - that my, boy, is the key. If they believe he belongs - that he is part of the room - then he does, he is. And whichever room he is about to step into, then that is who he must become.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

Who would be willing to put up with less than the desired result, if they could afford to have it done properly?

A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.

Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.

Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.

You will never change a prospective customer’s mind, my boy. There is a chance that he might make a new decision if enough reliable evidence comes his way, but to do that he has to want to listen - to hear it - and that requires trust and respect.

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value.

You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.

Trust me. In a very short time, you will become sought out by those in your network. Initially for your sound advice, but soon after as a provider of service. Few people seek advice about a subject that doesn’t require a solution.

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

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

The truth that we hide is naked, the one that we flaunt is so well dressed!

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.

Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer's money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave them dissatisfied.