Quotes About Persuasion

If your thoughts and your actions and your words harmonize, you are bound to influence those with whom you come in contact, more or less toward your way of thinking.

The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn.

A salesperson who is an able showman can change the prospective buyer's mind from negative to positive.

look first for the most logical motive they may use to influence the buyer's thinking and decision.

however, that motive usually must be placed by you in the mind of the prospective buyer.

USE POSITIVE EMOTIONS TO SELL OTHERS

The salesperson who can appeal to the buyer's emotions or feelings will make ten sales for every one made by the salesperson who appeals to buyers through their reason alone.

DON'T EVEN THINK NEGATIVE THOUGHTS Feelings, beliefs, and thoughts released by the salesperson, through his or her subconscious mind, often speak more loudly than words. If you understand this principle, you will know why you must sell yourself first, before trying to sell others. This also explains why the negative-minded salesperson hears the "no" so often.

the presentation appeals to as many of the motives as possible.

DON'T EVEN THINK NEGATIVE THOUGHTS Feelings, beliefs, and thoughts released by the salesperson, through his or her subconscious mind, often speak more loudly than words.

EVERYONE IS SELLING ALL THE TIME The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn.

Remember that people are motivated to buy or not to buy, through their feelings. Much of what they believe to be their own feelings consist of thought impulses they have unconsciously picked up from the messages sent out by the salesperson.

how to sell yourself by using the same strategies and psychology that master salespeople use in selling goods and services.

People are influenced in their actions, not by reason so much as by feelings.

If you don't believe it yourself, don't ask anyone else to do so.

It is a well known fact that one comes, finally, to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false. If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth.

induce other people to act upon motives without resistance or friction.

A master salesperson has the ability to influence people through the printed page as well as by the spoken word.

A master salesperson is a strategist at mind manipulation.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

Belief in the merchandise or service. The master salesperson never tries to sell anything in which he or she does not have confidence. Master salespeople know that regardless of what they may say about their wares, their minds will broadcast their lack of confidence to the mind of the prospective buyer.

Ability to "neutralize" the mind of the buyer.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Beware of the person who gives advice, telling you that a certain action on your part is "good for you" while it is also good for him, while the harm to you doesn't directly affect him.