Anderson Cooper Quotes

You can make people laugh, but having them really want to hear what you have to say, that takes trust and time.

If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.

If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.

Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.

You don't go to the people that are just like you. You go to the people that you have to earn their credit.

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

You can tell a workingman you like him, but he knows whether you are sincere or not. You can't make him believe you are interested in his welfare unless you are.

For me, it's common sense to treat other people like you would like to be treated. Empathy is a broad concept, but how do you get there? People get there differently. I get there by truly building a little trust and connection. You'll tell me something, I'll act on it, and then that builds on itself.

Relationships are personal, even in business, so sharing some of yourself and taking an interest in others helps to build trust and break down walls.

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view.

I hang out and sign records for an hour or two hours every night, and I like to hear as many people's stories as I can, because if somebody wants to share their story with me, I want to honor that.

Somebody's willingness to let me photograph them, and willingness to tell me a story, has nothing to do with the words I say. It all has to do with the energy I'm giving off, which hopefully is very genuine, very interested energy. It's just two people having a conversation in the street. I think that's where genuine content comes from.

My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'

The constructive criticism that I take very seriously is from people I know and respect, and they don't have to be musicians. But I do have to know where they're coming from.

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

I think my strength is to act instinctively, really quickly, on what I believe, what I see in this person. A proper portrait. I wouldn't dream of doing something inappropriate for that person. I guess I make the person comfortable around me.

If a fan approaches me and I feel like they have some kind of agenda, I'm probably gonna get real closed-off and not talk to them. But if I feel a connection with someone, or if I feel a certain trust with somebody, I feel like, 'You know what, I can open up to this person and tell them about an experience.'

People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know?

You need time to build relationships with subjects to win their trust.

If you show people how much you care and ask questions in a non threatening way, you'll be amazed by how much they'll tell you.