Mario Puzo Quotes

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Power comes through public persuasion.

ِAn offer you can't refuse.

President Obama thinks he can use emotion to bring pressure on Congress. But that's not how adults with power respond to things.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

Telling a man to go to hell and making him go are two different propositions.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

In domestic politics, presidents rarely wield independent power; what they wield is influence. Power is the capacity to make people do what you want them to do; influence is the ability to make them want what you want, at least temporarily.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.