Quotes About Persuasion

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

Women are like police, they can have all the evidence in the world but they still want a confession...

I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Now he is a man who could talk to God and the devil and make them work they difference--as long as neither of them have a woman.

Now he is a man who could talk to God and the devil and make them work out they difference--as long as neither of them have a woman.

Then the white man talk about how some people trying to use smooth talk to win people over and how totalitarianism always happens with consent and we nod like we understand.

Choosing to request rather than demand does not mean we give up when someone says no to our request. It does mean that we don't engage in persuasion until we have empathized with what's preventing the other person from saying yes.

This objective of getting what we want from other people—or getting them to do what we want them to do—threatens the autonomy of people, their right to choose what they want to do. And whenever people feel that they're not free to choose what they want to do, they are likely to resist, even if they see the purpose in what we are asking and would ordinarily want to do it.

None of this makes sense. At best, you've spent a lot of time failing to change someone's mind. At worst, you've made an enemy, damaged a relationship, and added to your reputation for being disagreeable.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

'Money talks' because money is a metaphor, a transfer, and a bridge.