Quotes About Persuasion

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience ends up with your money.

No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work.

The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch.

Money is not only the motivating factor, most of the time powerful positive words do

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

The key is not to call the decision maker. The key is to have the decision maker call you.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.

A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.