Richelle Mead Quotes

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

Leadership means getting people to do what they don’t want to do.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

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

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

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

You have convinced me that you are right. Now go out there and force me to do it.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

If they can talk to you over a secure telephone line, then you have to do what they want.

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.

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

You have no power or authority, of course.... Is there anything we can appear to do?

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

We must form men so that they can only will what we wish them to will.

Leaders get people to do what they otherwise wouldn’t do.