Speeches Don’t Solve Problems
Speeches don’t solve our problems, but if we can’t inspire people to believe again it doesn’t matter how many policies we have.
~~ Barack Obama ~~
The above quote was Barack Obama’s response to Hillary Clinton’s criticism that speeches don’t solve problems, and it certainly is true. A true and successful leader needs to have both - the ability to inspire people and the fortitude to devise and follow policies for the common good.
You may be able to fool the people for a while with good speeches but if you don’t deliver results, the same people will turn against you, and rightly so. And if you have good policies but you can’t convince people and get them inspired and involved, it’ll become extremely difficult, if not impossible, to successfully implement those policies.
A leader possessing such qualities is hard to come by. Everybody makes grand speeches but very few deliver results. That’s why only a few leaders become popular and are remembered a long time after they are gone while most others are forgotten as soon as they exit the scene.
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