True Needs Quotes

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

Let go of what you think you need & what you really need will show up.

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.

At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.

Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe.