Quotes about Delivery

In reality, wealth is measured by what one delivers, not how much effort it costs. If I paint someone's house, the owner shouldn't pay me extra for doing it with a toothbrush.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

I've got a friend who has a juice business and he brings boxes round and fills up my fridge with fruit and vegetable juices.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.

If you want people to remember what you say, you need to say the right thing at the right moment in the right way!

Anytime you are in front of other people to communicate— whether it's on a stage, in a boardroom, on a ball field, or across a coffee table—the visual impression you make will either help or hinder you.

One of the most important things you can do as a leader is make sure you and your organization are delivering what you promised. The question I ask to make an assessment of this is "Did we exceed expectations?" This ensures my future success and that of my organization. The future is dim professionally for anyone who doesn't exceed the expectations of customers or clients.

Four Unpardonable Sins of a Communicator": being unprepared, uncommitted, uninteresting, or uncomfortable.

If someone is hostile in the delivery of their feedback, remember that it is an expression of their level of fear, not your level of incompetence or unlovability.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

They used to have a saying among the musicians on staff when I was with him, 'Sinatra never does anything the same way once.' He was a perfectionist, he was a taskmaster and he knew exactly what it was he wanted because he understood how to deliver his message to the audience; never was there a greater example of that than that man.