Quotes from Amy Cuddy

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.

Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time, might do just the opposite, reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity.

Entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful if they're able to be present while pitching their ideas. It's about maintaining presence during big challenges - very high stakes moments with some component of social judgment. Everyone has them, whether they're entrepreneurs or not.

You have to buy what you're selling. If you don't buy what you're selling, nobody will.

People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.