The Bezos Blueprint Quotes

“most of the top skills required to future-proof a career fall under communication in all its forms: storytelling, public speaking, synthesizing and clarifying messages, translating information for different audiences and contexts, crafting an inspiring vision, developing relationships, and inspiring trust.”
― Carmine Gallo, The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World's Greatest Salesman

“Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark Writing to Persuade by Trish Hall On Writing Well by William Zinsser 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing by Gary Provost On Writing by Stephen King”
― Carmine Gallo, The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World's Greatest Salesman

“According to Tufte, “By leaving out the narrative between the points, the bullet outline ignores and conceals the causal assumptions and analytic structure of the reasoning.” A list of bullet points is a presenter’s way of compressing language into brief phrases. Bulleted outlines “might be useful now and then,” Tufte writes, “but sentences with subjects and verbs are usually better.”
― Carmine Gallo, The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World's Greatest Salesman

“Great speakers use short words to explain new ideas.”
― Carmine Gallo, The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World's Greatest Salesman

“Content written at the eighth-grade level can be read and understood by 80 percent of Americans.”
― Carmine Gallo, The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World's Greatest Salesman