57 Powerpoint Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous powerpoint quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational powerpoint quotes. Hopefully, these powerpoint quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your powerpoint knowledge!

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Famous Powerpoint Quotes

PowerPoint makes us stupid. - James Mattis

PowerPoint makes us stupid. — James Mattis

When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point. — John Tukey

There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation. — Tom Peters

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Delivering a successful presentation could mean landing a major new contract, better prices for your services, or getting the funding you need. — Lewis Howes

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills. — Shiv Khera

I like a crisp document and a messy meeting. The document should be written with such clarity that it's like angels signing from up high. — Jeff Bezos

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. — Walt Disney

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. - Robert Mapplethorpe

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. — Robert Mapplethorpe

There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across. — Rick Rubin

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become. — Barbara Kruger

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. — Ben Shneiderman

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McKee

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. - Robert McAfee Brown

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McAfee Brown

Multimedia scares me off. - Michael Nesmith

Multimedia scares me off. — Michael Nesmith

Short Powerpoint Quotes

  • Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table. — Peter Norvig
  • People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint. — Walter Isaacson
  • If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think. — Steven Pinker
  • I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking — Steve Jobs
  • You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations. — Andy Hargreaves
  • PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple. — Edward Tufte
  • Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. — Vinton Cerf
  • If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint. — Edward Tufte
  • My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. — Peter Norvig
  • There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide. — Edward Tufte

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More Powerpoint Quotes

I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint. — Steve Jobs

The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation. — Sherry Turkle

When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004. — Emma Stone

Work hard, but make time for your love, family and friends. Nobody remembers PowerPoint presentations on your final day — Chetan Bhagat

PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it. — Peter Norvig

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface. — Charles Stross

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how good your PowerPoint slides are or your strategy or concept. What it really comes down to is your team. How motivated and willing are they to reinvent your organization and how much do they understand the evolving consumer need? — Jeremy Gutsche

Humans simply aren’t moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion. The best way to emotionally connect other people to our agenda begins with “Once upon a time — Jonathan Gottschall

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of that sort. So, I'm an old fashioned still in this regard but these are the moment where I really can be creative, if I am, to be left alone with just a book and piece of paper and to be thinking. — Ahmed H. Zewail

A simple MS Word document, or a Powerpoint presentation, has its limits, particularly the unpredictability in how the page will actually display. With a PDF, you are locking down all those variables. — Michael Bierut

The less attractive the character, the more I enjoyed writing them. Officious bureaucrats and PowerPoint weasels are where it's at for me. — Neal Stephenson

PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect. — Ken Goldberg

Vision isn't a template in PowerPoint. — Roger McNamee

Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble. — Peter Norvig

PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations. — Clive Thompson

I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it. — Brie Larson

If you'd put it in a Powerpoint deck don't put it in your ad — Sayings

The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in. — Seth Godin

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation. — Rick Riordan

...I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff. — Libba Bray

PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation. — Edward Tufte

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