James Toback Quotes

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

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

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

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

If your heart's not into what you're selling, you're not going to make it.

Our job is to convince guys that our way is the best way to cross the road. The tactics and training and facilities are important, but I still have to convince you.

Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.

I am a very persuasive man.

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

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

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

In this work, you have to convince everyone all the time, at different levels, to support your dream. I learned you have to be confident in order to do that.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

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