Master The Art of Business Presentations

How much would I have to pay you to eat a live cockroach? $1,000? $5,000? $200,000? Come on, you would gobble a big fat brown cockroach for $200,000 with no problem. Right? I would. But I'll tell you what, I wouldn't do it for $50.

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Cowboy wisdom: "Never miss a good chance to shut up."

Hewlett-Packard once came up with the bright idea of removing all the doors from its offices to encourage open communication among management and staff.

Any time, any day, you could look out into the parking lot and see scores of people in twos and threes huddled among the cars, having private conversations they couldn't have in their door-less offices.

Henry IV, a sixteenth-century king of France, was listening to a pompous dignitary make a dull speech when a donkey started to bray. The king turned to the donkey and said: "Gentlemen, one at a time, please."