Buy In Quotes

In business, there's a saying: 'Disagree and commit.' It means that everyone should speak up before a decision is made. But once the boss has decided, you all get behind it to make it happen.

I've seen a rebuild, and I've seen how quickly things can turn around when guys buy in.

In democracy - and the good thing about democracy, big change does not happen quickly, and you need a buy-in and a convincing, a selling, an arm-twisting to get big change. And that takes time.

If you can’t bring the people with you, you lose the policy

What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

You have to buy into what the team is doing and get lost in that process. When you make it about yourself, that's when you can start to press a little bit.

My regular game in New York City was a $250,000 buy-in, no limit. So people were burning through that, a lot of times in the first 30 minutes.

That's the number one thing for a guy for a new coach coming in. You've really got to buy into the system and believe it's going to work because, if you don't, it's going to cause conflict, and you're not always going to be on the same page as the other guys on the team or with the coach.

To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and what they individually respond to.

People are not going to support what they did not help create.

The most obvious difference between a cash game and a tournament is that in tournament play, once your chips are gone, so are you. In a cash game, you can always dig into your pocket for more money.

It's important not to try to convince others of your own reasons for change. Finding the reason why they should want to support your efforts is the key to effective change management.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.

You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.

Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.

People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be.

Test ideas in the marketplace. You learn from hearing a range of perspectives. Consultation helps engender the support decisions need to be successfully implemented.

There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we might want to hire lived in the area. We also wanted to buy in a lower rent area that looked like it was going to be gentrified so that we could eventually sell the studio for more money.

The most influential people strive for genuine buy-in and commitment - they don't rely on compliance techniques that only secure short-term persuasion.