Needs Quotes

True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"

What people need and what they want may be very different.

There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

How many things I can do without!

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

The belly comes before the soul.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection.

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

The earth has everything for all human needs, but nothing for his greed.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

We need much less than we think we need.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs....by their perception.

Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Engaging people is about meeting their needs, not yours

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

I try not to invent things that people don't need.

This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator. Satisfaction does not increase motivation

I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.

It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

What a lot of things I don't need.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed.

Everybody wants something.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations, going 'it will never work. And they lose their dreams, but they get their needs. The needs are not like goals. They're not like belief systems that are built into you.

If you can't send money, send tobacco.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.