Quotes About Persuasion

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

Everyone has influence. Use it wisely.

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.

Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives.

The word "conviction" means to expose.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

We can influence people for bad or good.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

When we think we lead we most are led.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

the higher one rises in an organization, the more likely it is that people will tell you you're right. People will agree with powerful leaders as a strategy of ingratiation, as nothing is as flattering as others' telling you how right and how smart you are.