Many business communicators lard up their speeches with jargon and weasel words.
Since joining the Monetary Policy Committee he has regularly made it his business to explain in his speeches what quantitative easing really is - and try to dispel some of the myths about how it works.
He's reportedly collecting hundreds of millions of dollars from speeches, contributions and business deals around the world.
Many business people worry that Mr Chavez's incendiary speeches, in the absence of firm proposals for rural development, merely foment violence.
The breakfasts, the lunches and the dinners, the endless speeches and the private seminars, the industry forums and the business commissions: all have represented a ruthless determination to achieve that.
Turner is now a business consultant, advising clients on creating cultures of inclusion, facilitating workshops and delivering speeches.
Since the advent of the Backbench Business Committee, this has been fashioned into a rather more coherent event, with speeches grouped according to subject, and a team of ministers organised to reply to each grouping.
But Monday night he was back to the business of being a royal, wearing a crisp blue suit, listening intently to the speeches on stage and being gracious to the hosts and honorees.
Since the advent of the Backbench Business Committee, it has become much better organised, with a relay of ministers answering groups of speeches related to the work of their particular departments.
But behind the glitz and the glamour, behind the gongs and the speeches, behind the seemingly endless parade of beards, lies a highly-competitive international movie business, in which the stakes are high, there is no time for losers and second chances are rare (hence the 'phew and thanks' nature of Ben Affleck's speech).
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