Quotes About Persuasion

Your wit makes others witty.

When a wolf doesn't want to do something, they look really cute.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art.

Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell.

I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.

In America, they say, you can take a horse to the pond, but you can't make him drink. My way is different. I only take the horse to the pond to make him drink. If he doesn't, I'll cut his head off.

Usually I'll tell someone, for example, like their watch. If they have a watch on, I might say, 'In three minutes, I'd like to be wearing your watch. Do I have your permission?' Once they say yes, I play a little game with them as I'm interacting with them, and I steal their watch.

Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.

I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.

I was always the Doubting Thomas of the bunch, and I don't think I was convinced about the Allman Brothers until 'Fillmore East' hit - that one removed all doubt!

A company like Nike can convince people to buy Air Jordans even though they never saw Michael Jordan play.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.

Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.

The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.