Maurice Saatchi Quotes

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

In oratory the will must predominate.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

What you say in defense of … ideas matters, and what people hear matters even more.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

If you don't have a good case, and you don't have a good message, then shining a light on it is not going to get you very far.

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

In a world where audiences listen for attitudes rather than arguments or information, speakers must feel the pressure to posture rather than engage.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.