Quotes About Persuasion

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Give me an honest con man any day.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, 'Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?' And I said, 'None.' He then asked, 'Who sold you on that plan?'

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

When money talks, there are few interruptions.

Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack...

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

To money, the finest linguist in the world!

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time and money on: like, "Oh man, I write really great songs, I promise!"