Kellyanne Conway Quotes

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

Most great leaders are theatrical by nature.

People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

What is competent? Who is it that can adjudicate what is competent or not competent? If the guys that are running the most important banks in our country aren't competent enough, well then, who is competent enough?

My dad wasn't the best speaker like a Bill Clinton, or a Henry Kissinger, but he had character.

When I talk, people listen.

I don't think that your height affects how good of a spokesperson, how well you can be, how well you can communicate your ideas as a beauty queen or as a public figure.

I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that's who the focus is on - and it definitely doesn't matter if I am a woman or a man.

The sharp employ the sharp.

I always knew how to draw a crowd.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.