Ana Patricia Botin Quotes

I am a very persuasive man.

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

No matter what stage of life you are graduating from or entering, learning how to build and state your case is something every person in the world should know how to do.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

God and my dad gave me the gift of gab. I know how to finagle.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable …

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

At the Oxford Union I'd never debated before but I gave it a go.

I can sell anything. I'm very convincing.

If you're not convinced, how can you convince others?

Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.