Quotes About Persuasion

I'd hope Dad could talk her out of going along on her daughter's honeymoon. Somebody had to.

Fox News would say whatever makes the most people tune into Fox News.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

It is astonishing what power words have over men.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest

C'est avec des hochets que l'on mène les hommes." Napoléon Bonaparte à propos de la légion d'honneur, qu'il institua en 1802.

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

Power is founded upon opinion.

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don't do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

The job in getting people to fight and have faith is in making them believe in what life has made them feel, making them feel that their feelings are as good as others'.

For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are ... businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but--ominously--fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

The television commercial is about products only in the sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales

Our television set keeps us in constant communion with the world, but it does so with a face whose smiling countenance is unalterable. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether.

The distance between rationality and advertising is now so wide that it is difficult to remember that there once existed a connection between them.