Quotes About Influence

Show me any major event on this planet, and I will show you the economic reason behind it. Commerce is all powerful, Miss Strange. Commerce rules our lives.

Mi padre decía que Cataluña siempre ha estado en manos de un puñado de familias. Ellos mandaban antes del franquismo, mandaron durante el franquismo, mandan después del franquismo y mandarán cuando tú y yo estemos muertos y enterrados...

Si el periodista es listo, en la entrevista sales listo; si es tonto, sales tonto. Y, como la mayoría de los periodistas son tontos... Créeme: no hay nada peor que un periodista. Salvo un político, claro.

Sánchez Mazas siempre fue un hombre esquinado, soberbio y despótico...nada permite pensar que no hizo cuanto pudo por ellos (antiguos conocidos). Gracias a su insistencia el Caudillo conmutó por la de cadena perpetua la pena de muerte que pesaba sobre el poeta Miguel Hernández

Lo único que sé es que los políticos no son ni de derechas ni de izquierdas: son sólo políticos. Lo único que les interesa es el poder.

People are silently begging to be led.

When you read the phrase "selling your product or service," don't just think in terms of the product or service your company sells, but also your individual and intangible personal product or service—you. And understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence, and income. And

a surefire way to access that unconscious mind: repetition.

To improve your response rate, use testimonials.

You are your own marketing weapon—not only the things you say and do but also the things you are and believe. According to studies reported in Time magazine, the best five personality traits for you to possess are extroversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. It also helps immensely if you like and are fascinated by people.

The simple point is that people want to feel good about themselves and about the decisions they make. Build that into your marketing, and

everyone knows at least twelve influential people.

It's one thing to relay a fact to a person. It's a whole different thing when you tell a story.

Which brings us back to the definition of guerrilla networking: becoming the type of person other people want to meet. It

One real truth is that people dislike admitting that they're affected by marketing, so they'll usually give the credit to a friend.

Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.

A person's life persuades better than his word," said one of Aristotle's contemporaries.

THE UNANNOUNCED EMOTION: Don't advertise a mood. Invoke it

When you want to change someone's mood, tell a story.

Rhetoric is the art of influence, friendship, and eloquence, of ready wit and irrefutable logic. And it harnesses the most powerful of social forces, argument.

A bully wants you to cower or blush or run away in embarrassment. If you want to reverse the power, try pretending deep affection with just a little bit of pity.

Para vencer en una discusión deliberativa, no intentes superar a tu contrincante. En lugar de eso, trata de salirte con la tuya.

mayor orador de la historia, Marco Tulio Cicerón, quien propuso tres objetivos para persuadir a la gente, en orden creciente de dificultad:

Estimula las emociones de tu audiencia. Cambia su opinión. Hazla actuar.