Jeffrey Gitomer Quotes

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

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

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

If you didn't want to believe in me, that's OK, because I'll make a believer out of you.

If you believe, so will they.

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

I'm sure everybody looked at me cockeyed. But if you don't believe it, then it's not going to happen. If you don't believe it, no one else is going to believe it. But if you believe it and keep saying it, then slowly one person will believe you, then two, then three, then four . . .

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.

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence." To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince the guy to put me in first class.

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

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

… another man‘s opinion rarely convinces.

In order to make a good speech you must have something to say and you have to believe it.

I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others.