Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

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

I always get my way.

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

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

I can make men follow me to hell.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

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.

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

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

When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure - even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Power is a thing of perception. They don't need to be able to kill you. They just need you to think they are able to kill you

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.