Quotes About Influence

You can't be what you can't see. Expose yourself to more role models and diverse experience to broaden your perspectives and ideas.

Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don't have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

I've managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book!

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

As humans, we're so easily persuaded. We join this cause or that cause, and suddenly the other thing is wrong.

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

The only form of ethical persuasion that exists is when the goals of the persuader are aligned with the goals of the persuadee.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Most people don't have the power of persuasion.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.