If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

It's quite simple, (public speaking) Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down

Those who can't speak join Toastmasters; Those who can also join.

The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.