Adam Grant Quotes

Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

My first sales assessment, they tell you your strong points, and they told me I was the emotional salesman, the one who could really connect with people by making them feel comfortable. Once someone told me that, I couldn't get past how manipulative it made me feel.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

You don’t address their brains. You address their hearts.

That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

He [D'Artangnan] succumbs to her [Miledy Winter] level of seduction and gives into it. It's only when the series starts to progress that he realizes what she's doing, and the tables turn slightly. But that relationship really pays homage to how D'Artagnan can be easily swayed. You see him grow into somebody who can actually make a decision where he's not being used and forced into doing something that he doesn't want to do.

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

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

Fear is the greatest salesman.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

Intelligence makes sincerity difficult.

Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.