Keynote Speaker Quotes

#1. Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don't take lightly. I know I've got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama.

Julian Castro

#2. I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.

Jerry Della Femina

#3. Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.

Ann Coulter

#4. Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

Ted Rall

#5. Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.

Magnus

#6. He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.

Andrew Cuomo

#7. I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.

John McAfee

#8. How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?

K.P. Yohannan

#9. She's got a smile that it seems to me remind me of the childhood memories when everything was fresh as a bright blue sky.

Guns N' Roses

#10. I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

Wilfred Owen

#11. My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

Morrissey

#12. Do we follow the road life's placed before us?
Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path.
A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice,
Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny's arms.

Christopher Babson

#13. Live the dream awake.

Tia Walker

#14. I must admit I'm impressed, Sadie. You controlled your magic and controlled Isis. And you, Carter, did well turning into a lizard.

Rick Riordan

#15. Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

Oliver Goldsmith

#16. Make decisions, not excuses!

John Di Lemme

#17. The question is not how to get managers' emotional commitment but why manager's don't give it even if they like their company.

Stan Slap

#18. It takes thirty-three days to write a book
only thirty-three days. remember, writers lie for a living.

Darynda Jones

#19. One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

Don Cheadle

#20. For the first time in years, I wanted . . . something. Anything. As long as it was real.

Helena Hunting

#21. The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

Stan Slap

#22. You've climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.

Eleanor Brownn

#23. Our very life depends on everything's
Recurring till we answer from within.
The thousandth time may prove the charm.

Robert Frost

#24. Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.

Christopher Babson

#25. Bury My Heart is a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.

Stan Slap

#26. Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.

Stan Slap