Candace Bushnell Quotes

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

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

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

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

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

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

You can't make people respond.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

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.

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

She make me beg for it until she give it up

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.