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Saturday
17Oct2009

Advice for Young Professionals (#10 in a Series)

"I've never met anyone who didn't think Toastmasters was super valuable to their career. We gain self-esteem, self-confidence, assertiveness. This makes us better salespeople, better managers, better leaders. I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my dad pushing me over the threshold, pushing me to join Toastmasters. I had no idea whatsoever that some day I'd speak to Fortune 500 companies every week. Had I not been a good speaker, there isn't one chance in a hundred that I would have ever written a book. So it started with Toastmasters."

~Harvey Mackay, Best-selling author, speaker, and chairman of MackayMitchell Envelope Co, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

Reader Comments (1)

That is a great testimonial to the power of Toastmasters. Anyone can benefit, but for those who are serious about gaining self-confidence to help their career, Toastmasters offers a fun, low-cost, and incredibly effective means to reaching that goal. Toastmasters makes a real difference!

October 21, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDee Dee Raap

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