Amy Cuddy

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.

Amy Cuddy

Entrepreneurs’ grounded enthusiasm is contagious, stimulating a high level of commitment, confidence, passion, and performance in the people who work for and with them.

Amy Cuddy

Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there’s something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn’t mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way.

Amy Cuddy

Expanding your body language-through posture, movement, and speech – makes you feel more confident and powerful, less anxious and self-absorbed, and generally more positive.

Amy Cuddy

Expanding your body physiologically prepares you to be present; it overrides your instinct to fight or flee, allowing you to be grounded, open, and engaged.

Amy Cuddy

I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others.

Amy Cuddy

It’s not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.

Amy Cuddy

It’s about being present in the moments that challenge us. It’s also about trusting that those moments build upon themselves as we nudge ourselves forward, reinforcing our thinking, feelings, and behavior.

Amy Cuddy

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

Amy Cuddy

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

Amy Cuddy