Presentations Quotes

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics; they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise.

I love presentations more than fashion shows. I love speaking to people and walking them through the collection.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

If you want to add visuals to your blog posts, presentations or whatever it is, and you're as bad at drawing as I am, I think tracing photos is a good place to start.

Our adversaries have adopted some declarations of independence, in which, unlike our the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one signed by Washington, they omit "We, the people," and substitute: "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent states." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the people?

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

I was freelance proof-reading, freelance editing, creating illustrated slides for doctors' presentations - just so I'd have enough money to take the time to write. That's how I got by.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

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.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Like a foul fistula, overloaded with pus, this corruption exploded in the presentation of the Bollingen-Library of Congress award to the fascist poet, Ezra Pound.

My main income is from speaking.

Bullets on a presentation slide are too often like bullets in a gun - deadly for those on the receiving end.

I don't have any records from back in 2002, but when people called and asked me to speak to groups, I went and spoke to groups.

Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.

What I did as a professor is not that different than what I do in hearings.