Superb Quotes About Presentation Skills

Presentation skills are the skills you need in delivering effective and engaging presentations to a variety of audiences.

A presentation is a means of communication which can be adapted to various speaking situations, such as talking to a group, addressing a meeting or briefing a team.

Superb Quotes About Presentation Skills

• Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader’s success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively. Norman Allen

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

• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.   Jimi Hendrix

• A person who can think, but cannot express what he thinks, places himself at the level of the person who cannot think.Pericles

• On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title.  John Shaw Billings

• 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

• Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your presentations skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. Jim Rohn

• No one can remember more than three points. Philip Crosby

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

• Humour heals the heckler. Gerald C. Meyers

• Designing a presentation without an audience in mind is like writing a love letter and addressing it: To Whom It May Concern.  Ken Haemer

• It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark Twain

• Presentations are like babies: easier to conceive than deliver. Pat O’Malley

• The simplest way to customize your talk is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation. Allan Pease

• If you make a point only one time, at the end of your presentation, just 10% of the audience will remember it. If you repeat a point six times, retention jumps to 90%. Bill Wilson

• A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with pathos. Aristotle

• You have all the confidence you will ever need inside of you. It may be hidden deep you must give yourself permission to let it out. George Torok

• The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. Bernard Baruch

• Smile when you start, when you finish and when you say something important. Source Unknown

• An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• When I’m talking to a large audience, I imagine that I’m talking to a single person. Red Barber

• Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said. Dale Carnegie

• When you speak believe that you are the expert to speak to this audience at this time on this topic. That is the only reason the audience is listening to you. George Torok

• If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. US President Gerald Ford

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