Quotes About Persuasion

Nobody watches commercials if you ask them. Nevertheless, they watch commercials.

I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

Suggestibility is a very loose term. You may not be the sort of person who responds well to a hypnotist on stage, but you might find, for example, that a doctor administering a placebo to you is something you respond well to.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure - even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

I've got a lot of charisma, plus women are forgiving and they can be charmed.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

It's very easy to colour the thoughts of people in the age of social media. If you are being bombarded with some lies constantly, you tend to believe it's true.

Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

I love commercials.