Quotes About Persuasion

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.

Advertising gets such a bashing from the world. At parties you are always asked, 'Aren't you just selling people things they don't want?

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.

If you're just really loud, people just want - will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.

[Eva Braun] always said, "you're the Führer, you can do whatever you want to do."

Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

You can't make the people do what you want them to do. You've got to get everybody to see what you seein' or you gonna be a damn fool.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

Isabelle: Do you want some soup? Jace: No Isabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup? Jace: No one wants soup Simon: I want some soup! Jace: No, you don't. You just want to sleep with Isabelle

One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.