Kirk Kerkorian Quotes

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

Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker.

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

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

The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I often begin a thought with spirit and finish it with nonsense. The chain of my argument often escapes me, and when lost can seldom be retrieved. These faults are so overpowering that I should sink into perpetual silence were it not that sometimes in ardor of debate, when my feelings are wound up to a high tone, elocution pours itself along with unusual rapidity, and I have passages which would not shame a good speaker; this is the only thing that makes me tolerable to others or to myself.

I [Moses] am not a man of words.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

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

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

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.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

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

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

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

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.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.