Throughout the history, there have been a number of great speakers like Lincoln, King and Churchill but they may not have earned so much like the speakers of this century. Donald Trump has got the highest speaking fees ever paid, $1.5 million from delivering speeches at the Learning Annex in 2006 and 2007. Not only him, has the formal president of United States, Bill Clinton dominates the list when ranking the dough at the lecture.
The reason people pay that much money, according to Zanker from the Learning Annex, is that they just worth it. They give the specific, actionable advice to the audience so that they attract a huge crowd who are eager to pay to hear them speak.
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It’s interesting how people pay just to hear someone that they like, or rather admire, speak. Yes, of course they give you some actionable advices, the things that you can just apply to their everyday life; yet so can do the books which would cost less than the tickets. Also the things that those famous people talk about are some kind of known facts of how we should live or how we can earn tons of money. Surely they would get more from those lectures, but for me, it is kind of never-understood thing.
On the other hand, this article is interesting in the way that it shows how a person, not of less or more but the same as everyone else, can be a BRAND himself. People pay money to see him or hear from him in the way they buy clothing, house or grocery. It’s just- just like Professor Abraham Lee puts it- WOW.
No. 1: Donald Trump
$1.5 Million
The Learning Annex, 2006 And 2007
The Donald earned a staggering $1.5 million per speech at The Learning Annex's "real estate wealth expos" in 2006 and 2007. Trump appeared at 17 seminars and collected this fee for each one. Trump was contracted to speak for an hour at each appearance, but "he usually goes a couple hours" if you include the time he spends fielding questions from the audience, according to Learning Annex founder and President Bill Zanker.
No. 2: Donald Trump
$1 Million
The Learning Annex, 2005
Trump set the stage for his million-five payday with the Learning Annex after earning $1 million per speech in 2005.
No. 3: Ronald Reagan
$1 Million
Fujisankei Communications, 1989
The late former president was reportedly paid $2 million by the Japanese media company for a 1989 tour of Japan, which included two speeches. We rank Reagan a notch behind Trump because he also gave press interviews with Fujisankei-owned media outlets during his visit.
No. 4: Tony Blair
$500,000
Guangda Group, 2007
The former British prime minister was pilloried in November by government-run newspapers in China when they revealed he had been paid half a million dollars by a property development company in Guangdong province to deliver a speech at a luxury housing development.
No. 5: Bill Clinton
$450,000
Fortune Forum, 2006
The Man From Hope generates more on the public speaking circuit than any former president ever has. His most expensive speech to date? An address he delivered in September 2006 at the Fortune Forum in London, for which he earned $450,000. And that wasn't even his best-paying gig: That honor goes to a November 2003 speech he was scheduled to deliver in Japan on behalf of Sakura Capital Management. But the speech was canceled and the $500,000 proceeds were donated to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Foundation.
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