Quotes & Sayings About Business Presentations

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

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

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

In business presentations, positive impressions can help make a sale or win over an audience. — Ian Lamont

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

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

It's hard to hold a conversation with people when you're not seeing them. — Dale Ludwig

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

Well-designed visuals do more than provide information; they bring order to the conversation. — Dale Ludwig

Just as you can't rehearse your way to success, you can't design your way there either. — Dale Ludwig

Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit. — Dale Ludwig