Professional Speaker Quotes

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

Bachelor parties would pay a lot of money to hire Pat Buchanan to come.

My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, 'Tom Joyner Morning Show.' I'm appreciative of all of those platforms, but I've done all different things. I'm still Roland Martin.

I ask for personal appearance fees because I've earned them. I deserve them. My presence at events is what they need, so they ought to pay for it.

I'm a motivational speaker, so I'm going to look at something in as much of a positive way as possible.

My main income is from speaking.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!

I make a great part of my living by traveling and speaking. To me, it's like being a politician, you meet your audience, you constantly see the people and they're getting younger for me which is really, really encouraging. I get older and my audience gets younger. It couldn't be better.

Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers in America, with a message everyone should hear.

I make my living talking about serious subject matter, but I'm a weirdo.