Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. . . If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
Wallace G. Wilkinson
Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
Arthur Bradford
Oscar De La Hoya
John Mott
William Meade
Lord Randolph Churchill
Ty Herndon
Howard A. Tullman
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Steve Hackett
Michel Petrucciani