Business Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in…

— Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public....

— Abraham Lincoln

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

— Lord Mansfield

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue.…

— Thiruvalluvar

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a…

— Sergio De La Pava

A person who is discreet in speaking will be useful during the good times and will avoid punishment during the bad.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he…

— Benjamin Whichcote

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him,…

— James A. Garfield

There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and…

— Jonathan Zittrain

I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not…

— Booker T. Washington