Quotes About Persuasion

And when people sense that something is coming around the logical corner that they will not to be so, they often just refuse to carefully follow the argument. It's as common as sin, and a large part of it too.

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

Inner calm is critical to persuasive acting.

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

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

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.

La verdad es poderosa y tiene su propia gravedad; finalmente, la gente se vuelve a sentir atraído por ella.

Seduction, he knew, was both science and art—a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

liderazgo no es sinónimo de dominación, sino el arte de convencer a la gente de que colabore para alcanzar un objetivo común.

El liderazgo no es sinónimo de dominación, sino el arte de convencer a la gente de que colabore para alcanzar un objetivo común.

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Go cons a piece of cake onto your mouth.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

One voice can change a room.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already prepared. They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, prechewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so.

People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.