Quotes About Persuasion

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they're as clever as can be and are convinced that it's terribly important to persuade even the children that Fantastica doesn't exist. Maybe they will be able to make good use of you.

Preachers delivered sermons on the Constitution, pro and con.

rather than selling people on some change, you were better off identifying the reasons for their resistance, and addressing those. Imagine

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. —Leo Tolstoy, 1897

No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.

Wing Chau didn't know he'd been handpicked by Greg Lippmann to persuade Steve Eisman that the people on the other end of his credit default swaps were either crooks or morons, but he played the role anyway.

For though there was no chance of persuading a pension fund manager looking to make a longer-term loan to buy a Freddie Mac bond that could evaporate tomorrow, one could easily sell him the third tranche of a CMO.

Even as she helped the team of software guys and former Obama officials build the model that persuaded Newsom to shut down the state, Charity had decided that she was leaving. As children, she and her older sister had a phrase to describe the unsettling sensation of fresh doubt about some situation or some person: black smoke. The black smoke had rolled into state government with the virus and never left.

He attracted followers as a magnet attracts filings. In other words, he was exactly the right man to take an inherently implausible idea and lead others to believe in it.

Moses could have walked in the door, and if he said he came from fixed income, Vinny wouldn't have trusted him

Great sales letters don't tell the customer what to think … or feel … or want. They locate the prospect's feelings, thoughts, and desires, and then stimulate them. They provoke the prospect to do the feeling and thinking on her own. In taking this indirect approach, you avoid the possibility that your prospect will take refuge in denial, and give her a chance to follow the course of her own feelings.

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn't change the fact he's wrong most of the time.

That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

In reality, many universities have direct investments in corporate America in the form of substantial stock portfolios. By purchase and persuasion, our institutions of higher learning are wedded to institutions of higher earning.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.

If Sir Alex says, 'Listen, I want you to play for my team,' it's very difficult not to say yes.

My sister's a big karaoke person, and she's never been able to get me to do it.

Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and sit at the brief feast, what avails their serene gaze if it do not lift up your hearts and movingly persuade you to match your manhood to its inheritance?

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

My father didn't want to ski alone, so he took me up to the mountains in order to basically bribe my mom to come with him.

Selling is a natural skill. It's developed as a child. You may know it as persuasion.

We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo