Quotes About Persuasion

I had spent the previous summer and lunch hours during the school year working in my uncle Earl Edmund Sweet's drugstore soda fountain in Oak Park. That was where I learned that you could influence people with a smile and enthusiasm and sell them a sundae when what they'd come for was a cup of coffee.

There are only two surefire ways to get people to do what you want them to do. You either put on an iron glove and make them do it. Or you tell them God wants them to do it.

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

It's my feeling that on sensitive, localized issues like our schools, it's important to lead with the carrot and not force peoples' hands.

Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

I am not good at making people understand certain things.

Persuading employees to let go of old values and beliefs and adopt new ones can be challenging.

Charisma always was the important thing to me.

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

There was something about me even at an early age that enjoyed charming and manipulating.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

The way I choose to dress, I want to influence other people around me, I suppose.

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

You'd be surprised how many doors flattery can open.

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.