Mastering the Warren Buffett Secret: The Value of Presentation Skills

The single biggest upgrade that anybody can have in their market value, no matter what career, whatever business, whatever social projects, whatever you're wanting to do would be to become comfortable and competent at presentations, camera presentations and audience presentations. I'll tell you who agrees with me about that. Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett has degrees and honorary degrees. You know that. None of them hang on the wall. You go to his office, there's no degrees hanging on the wall. You know what is hanging on the wall? The Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Certificate. The he got. Why? Because he thinks it's unbelievably valuable. He was doing a commencement or graduation speech at some university, and he told all the students, he says, I'll give any one of you $100,000 in cash right now if you just offer me 10% of your income for the rest of your life. But if you do a public speaking course, I'll give you 150,000. It increases the value proposition. Doesn't matter whether you're raising money, trying to get a job, trying to get a promotion, your ability to stand in front of an audience or a camera changes everything.