Presentation Quotes

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

Criss Jami

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Ken Blanchard

Ask a heckler to identify himself and his company. They usually prefer to be anonymous.

Judy Moreo

I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next.

Tom Ogden

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Ira Hayes

Ask yourself, If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get my message across.

Jeff Dewar

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that it conferred 'experience' on the despised and much-deceived wife. Well, the main 'experience' involved the comprehensive fouling-up of the nation's health-care arrangements, so as to make them considerably worse than they had been before and to create an opening for the worst-of-all-worlds option of the so-called HMO, combining as it did the maximum of capitalist gouging with the maximum of socialistic bureaucracy. This abysmal outcome, forgiven for no reason that I can perceive, was the individual responsibility of the woman who now seems to think it entitles her to the presidency.

Christopher Hitchens

Top presenters have total control of their fears. They make fear their slave, not the master.

Doug Malouf

Humor heals the heckler.

Gerald C. Meyers

It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.

Wayne Burgraff

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Dale Carnegie

No one can remember more than three points.

Philip Crosby

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Philip Crosby

They expect a professional presentation, so they expect to see a professional. Dress appropriately for the occasion, but don't be one of the crowd.

Wess Roberts