FIVE world class public speakers

AND

how they used to suck

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the great speakers were

bad speakers at first

Delivered one of the most famous

speeches in history to over 250,000 civil

rights supporters during the March

on Washington.

PORTFOLIO

I HAVE A DREAM, 1963

Martin Luther King

But in High School he only managed a C for public speaking!

PORTFOLIO

School Transcript, 1948

Martin Luther King

DNC, 2012

Democratic National ConventionDemocratic National Convention

Bill Clinton

One of the great modern orators.

Watch his nomination of Barack Obama to the 2012 Democratic national Convention

to see him at his best.

DNC, 1988

Bill Clinton

Unlike the 1988 Democratic National

Convention. His nomination of

Michael Dukakis was so long and so laboured that

attendees cheered ironically when he finally finished his

speech!

DNC, 1988

Also known as the “Sage of

Omaha”

His annual general

meetings are more like a

rock concerts!

Warren Buffet

But in college, he was so nervous about public speaking, he choose classes that didn't require presentations!

He did enrol in a public speaking course but dropped out before it even started. Then he re-enrolled, and the rest is history

PORTFOLIOWarren Buffet

In 2014, the former Primer Minister

gave one of the greatest speeches in British political

history.

A passionate, thundering speech

that many credit with “saving the

Union”

Better Together, 2014

Gordon Brown

This was from the same man who, in a 2009 survey, was voted as Britain’s most boring public speaker.

Gordon Brown

So, if you crash and burn in your next presentation…

Don’t worry, better speakers than you have been there

before!

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