The 100: Insights and Lessons from 100 of the Greatest Speakers and Speeches Ever Delivered, New Edition with 10 Extra Speeches

  • 5h 57m
  • Jeremy Kourdi, Simon Maier
  • Marshall Cavendish
  • 2011

Great oratory should inspire and enlighten. World history shows time and time again that speeches can soothe a nation or encourage a faction. Speeches can inspire a people to fight battles or injustice. Speeches can get people to make huge sacrifices or overcome the shackles of prejudice or poverty. Speeches can help people fight against oppression, racism, bigotry. Alternatively, speeches can perpetrate terrible acts of inhumanity, hate, torture, prejudice, violence and extraordinary destruction. Great speeches have a powerful effect on the listener – from revolution to revulsion – and the cleverly written and well-delivered phrase can forever be imprinted upon our individual memories and on the collective memory of society. Add to that an emotional charge that simply moves us, brings tears to our eyes and makes us feel humble, angry or vindicated, and the speech or speaker will be consequential, long-lasting and forever remembered.

About the Authors

Simon Maier has been involved in delivering events for 23 years throughout the world and for every imaginable purpose. In the mid-1980s he led much of the event activity in the UK for the privatization of several blue chip companies, and has ever since been responsible for a wide variety of corporate and public events.

As its managing director, Simon led Saatchi-owned ICM to record turnover and profit levels and then did much the same for a number of other leading event and experiential businesses, including his own.

He is frequently invited to comment on what makes a great speech and a speaker great, in the course of which he explains how people can have the first and become the second. Simon is also in demand as a conference facilitator, in which role many CEOs regard him as an event playmaker or quarterback.

Jeremy Kourdi is a writer and executive coach. He was senior vice president at The Economist Group, chairing and participating in a range of international conferences and forums. During his career he has worked with several market-leading organizations including HSBC, London Business School, Pearson and the Chartered Management Institute.

Jeremy divides his time between executive coaching and writing. He has authored over twenty books translated into fifteen languages. Based in London, his writing business provides original information, insights and research for organizations worldwide. Much of his work focuses on the challenges of strategy, leadership, coaching, marketing and international relations.

In this Book

  • The 100—Insights and Lessons from 100 of the Greatest Speakers and Speeches Ever Delivered, New Edition with 10 Extra Speeches
  • Introduction
  • Salvador Allende
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Corazón Aquino
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Henry Ward Beecher
  • Aneurin Bevan
  • Benazir Bhutto
  • Lee Bollinger
  • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Neville Bonner
  • Adrien Brody
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • George H. W. Bush
  • John Chambers
  • César Estrada Chávez
  • Winston Churchill
  • Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Bill Clinton
  • George Clooney
  • Sebastian Coe
  • Colonel Tim Collins
  • Emperor Constantine
  • Bill Cosby
  • Walter Cronkite
  • Severn Cullis-Suzuki
  • Clarence Darrow
  • Demosthenes
  • Deng Xiaoping
  • Charles Dickens
  • Benjamin Disraeli
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Elizabeth I
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Mohandas K. Gandhi
  • Bill Gates
  • Charles de Gaulle
  • Rudy Giuliani
  • Patrick Henry
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • General Sir Mike Jackson
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • Steve Jobs
  • Barbara Jordan
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • Muhtar Kent
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Martin Luther King Jr
  • Junichiro Koizumi
  • James Lavenson
  • Lee Kuan Yew
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • David Lloyd George
  • Huey P. Long
  • General Douglas MacArthur
  • Malcolm X
  • Nelson Mandela
  • George Martin
  • John McCain
  • Robert Menzies
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Barack Obama
  • Conan O’Brien
  • Robert Oppenheimer
  • Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Randy Pausch
  • Lester Pearson
  • Pericles
  • William Lyon Phelps
  • Colin Powell
  • Yitzhak Rabin
  • Rania of Jordan
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Oskar Schindler
  • Gerhard Schröder
  • Lee Scott
  • Ricardo Semler
  • Margaret Chase Smith
  • Socrates
  • Ted Sorensen
  • Charles, Earl Spencer
  • Sun Yat-sen
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Leon Trotsky
  • George Washington
  • Daniel Webster
  • Jack Welch
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Muhammad Yunus
  • William Wilberforce
  • Sukarno
  • Václav Havel
  • Harold Macmillan
  • Fidel Castro
  • Ann Richards
  • Daniel Hannan
  • Neil Kinnock
  • Mary Robinson
  • William Pitt the Elder
  • Greatness Omitted
  • Sources of Further Information and Acknowledgements
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