Business Presentations Quotes

“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 and Greg Owen-Boger

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

“It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.”
― Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger

“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 and Greg Owen-Boger

“Well-designed visuals do more than provide information; they bring order to the conversation.”
― Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger

“The best text slides convey their message as starkly and simply as possible. They do not waste words (or slides) on transitional or introductory points, which can and should be stated orally. This means of course that the slides by themselves will not be intelligible as a handout to someone who has not attended the presentation.”
― Barbara Minto, The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving

“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 and Greg Owen-Boger

“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 and Greg Owen-Boger

“Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.”
― Dale Ludwig and Greg Owen-Boger