TALKING SHOP Księgarnia

Talking Shop is a comprehensive collection of quotations relevant to the international world of business. It covers over 160 subects, including Money, Power, and Success. This easy-to-use resource is full of inspirational quotations from over 1,500 influential business figures and commentators around the world. Detailed author information and source references will help you find what you want to say and tell you who said it first.

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Practical source of thoughts and advice for presentations, reports and speeches

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'At last, a business book I like. It is the best thing that has crossed my desk in a long time ... inside is a rich collection of some of the shorter things people have said about business in the past 2,000 years or so. On each page is a heady mixture of sense and nonsense, banality, pretension and humour: it begs you to play the delightful game of matching the quote to the speaker. Who said this: 'I would have been a success in anything. But I have chosen an activity that was socially useful and that aspect gives me extra satisfaction'? Any goody-goody modern businessman could have said the last bit; actually the speaker was Robert Maxwell - crook and plunderer of his staff's pension fund. I have just opened the book at random. It falls on the section on communication and the first quote I see says: 'When you have nothing to say, say nothing' Charles Caleb Colton, British clergyman, 1820.

Another great tip comes from the Christian Science Monitor in 1963. 'Let us write as if we were writing to a sceptical aunt. All the rest of the world can look over our aunt's shoulder.' This is the best advice I have ever seen for corporate memos, proposals or any business communication. Yet how many memos at your place of work pass the sceptical aunt test? From my experience, almost none ... Barbara Cassani's view on communication is more to my liking: 'I say what I mean. You hear what I say. That is the end of it.' ' Lucy Kellaway, Financial Times

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