Tom Peters Quotes

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

That's what I need to work on - my charisma in front of people.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

It's essential that you make eye contact with your audience. You've got to know what's happening out there.

I was always drawn to standing up in front of people.

I used to fear public speaking. My voice would shake, I used to forget to breathe. Now it's pretty easy for me.

When I give a speech, I tell it like a story.

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

Sorry, public speaking isn't really my strong side.

You might be thinking that some people are just naturally good at speaking up, and others just aren't - game over. Not true. Speaking up is a skill that you have to learn like any other, whether it's speaking Spanish or doing calculus or changing a tire.

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better at interviews.' The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, 'I do that every day.'

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

I love to learn, and Victoria's Secret has given me more opportunities than I ever thought possible. I like doing things that scare me - I've learned never to doubt myself.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.