Need Fulfillment Quotes

The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

I don’t like to solve new needs, I like to solve existing needs.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

Any civilization which respects itself admits to its basic responsibility of providing for its members in need. But few civilizations have achieved greatness by treating all their members as needy.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

At Dell, we believe the customer is in control, and our job is to take all the technology that's out there and apply it in a useful way to meet the customer's needs.

For most people, love is a response to need fulfillment. Everyone has needs. You need this, another needs that. You both see in each other a chance for need fulfillment. So you agree-tacitly-to a trade. I'll trade you what I've got if you'll give me what you've got. It's a transaction. But you don't tell the truth about it. You don't say, "I trade you very much." You say, "I love you very much," and then the disappointment begins.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.