Quotes About Persuasion

The Art of Asking,

A person can have the greatest idea in the world—completely different and novel—but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter. —GREGORY BERNS

Relying on the art of persuasion to strengthen emotional bonds makes teams more productive, engaged, cooperative, and, ultimately, successful.

Churchill proved that one person can make a difference. One person can save a civilization. But no person has a chance to persuade the greatest number of people if they cannot explain their ideas with short, well-chosen words.

To Sell Is Human, "Like it or not, we're all in sales now.

Great speakers use short words to explain new ideas.

While all storytellers love the rule of three, for business storytelling, the three-act structure is particularly critical to making your case simply and persuasively. Your customer doesn't want to know all 200 features of your product; explain three features they will care the most about.

Great communicators reach your head and touch your heart.

If you don't buy into your story, nobody else will.

She had probably been too intense, always trying to shake sense into whomever, then bewildered when, instead of revising their beliefs or being galvanized into action, they simply chose to be friends with someone else.

Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.

The reason Big Pharma spends so much on small gifts as well as the big ones is well known to marketers, lobbyists, and social psychologists: being given a gift evokes an implicit desire to reciprocate.

Cognitive psychologist Maryanne Garry finds that as people tell you how an event might have happened, it starts to feel real to them. Children are especially vulnerable to this suggestion.

Therefore, when you are about to make a big purchase or an important decision—which car or computer to buy, whether to undergo plastic surgery, or whether to sign up for a costly self-help program—don't ask someone who has just done it. That person will be highly motivated to convince you that it is the right thing to do.

You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me.

Her stomach had fluttered when he asked so persistently, even threatening to persuade her. If he'd tried to kiss her to persuade her . . . curse him, it would have worked.

God bless the woman who'd invented air-conditioning. Okay, it might have been a man, but I'll bet you dollars to earthworms that a woman nagged him into it.

I could charm the birds out of everyone's trees but his

Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

From now on, consider yourself a con artist.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.