Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.
Eckhart TolleAcceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
Eckhart Tolle