Quotes About Persuasion

People don't believe the truth but believe what they constantly hear.

If you say one lie enough times, it becomes truth people start to believe. (That's how it works - Extracted)

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.

Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly.

A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it.

Somehow, it bothered her watching Garth's charm directed so effectively at another. Could he convince her so easily of an untruth?

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.

People want to go where they wanted to be led.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you, to be around you, to be influenced by you.

You can't believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.