What People Want Quotes

As much as possible, connect your offer to the direct benefits customers will receive. Like the Alaska coupon books, a compelling offer pays for itself by making a clear value proposition. What people want and what they say they want are not always the same thing; your job is to figure out the difference. When developing an offer, think carefully about the objections and then respond to them in advance. Provide a nudge to customers by getting them to make a decision. The difference between a good offer and a great offer is urgency (also known as timeliness): Why should people act now? Offer reassurance and acknowledgment immediately after someone buys something or hires you. Then find a small but meaningful way to go above and beyond their expectations. ~ Anonymous

Don't ever just say what people want to hear. ~ Me

It means a lot to me that people appreciate what I do. That's why I give a lot of importance to my fans and I like to maintain a certain proximity to them. I already feel very thankful that people enjoy my work so much, and becoming famous is not my ultimate goal. I think it's important to keep a good balance between what I want to do and what people want to hear; otherwise I might fall into the dark side. ~ Shook

Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same lame stuff as everyone else sees. No, it is a chance to differentiate at a human scale, to use behavior as the most important clue about what people want and more important, what they need. ~ Seth Godin

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want. ~ Ivy Lee

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately. ~ Brit Hume

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on. ~ Buddy Rice

Sad fact is, it doesn't take much to amuse most people. But this is what you need to understand: any good confidence game is built on two pillars - what people want and what they fear. ~ H.P. Wood

I think that what people want is for government to function ... not through temper tantrums and saying we are not going to participate, we are not going to play ball. ~ John Cornyn

There's nothing to give away. I get so exhausted being what people want me to be that when I'm on my own, I enjoy being nothing to no one. You have no idea how tiring it is always being someone else. ~ Andrea Speed

What people want, above all, is order. ~ Stephen Gardiner

There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want. ~ Ted Sarandos

I want people to see my movies. My talent, my sensibilities are what people want to see in the movies. While I have the talent to make the kind of movies people want to see I want to continue to do that, keep making big pictures and make what I love. I'm really just making the films I want to see. There's not a strategy. ~ Brett Ratner

It was a chance meeting with a lady at Mariah Carey's record company who was here in our office, actually. And I pulled her in here to this very office that we're sitting in now, and I played her the clip of me and George Michael singing. And I was like, it's joyful. And that's what people want. ~ James Corden

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'If you release me now that I know my nature, I could not help but unmake the enchantment of the mirrors. You see, they are tame now and they show only what people want and need to see in them. The wildness of them is bound up in my form, though I did not know it for a long time. If I were uncaged, I could not help but tear at the enchantment until I was unnamed. Then I would fly into all of the mirrors and windows and into shining footpaths after rain. The mirrors would become wild and they would be absolutely, utterly truthful. Everything would be seen for what it truly was. My laughter would greet every lie and every pretense. It would rumble like a volcano under the smooth surface of everything. You can imagine the chaos it would cause here, for those who dwell in the greylands do so because the mirrors are tamed. If I were free, people would come to be afraid of them. They would cease to believe in their reflections and eventually they would no longer believe in themselves. No, laughter must remain caged here. ~ Isobelle Carmody

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius. ~ Connie Brockway

Whatever I decide will not work. It's what people want that will work. So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else. What determines that is the availability of food. If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables. I have no control over that. That would be up to people. ~ Jacque Fresco

It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want. ~ Jack White

What I've learned is, what people want is to tell someone, anyone, their problems. ~ Danila Botha

[Kirk] Johnson throws some heavy punches and is a knockout fighter. This is what people want to see. They want to see a fight, they want to see punches and they want to see action. ~ Lennox Lewis

A philosopher philosophizes what people need to hear. A motivational speaker speaks what people want to hear. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part. ~ Lauryn Hill

If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it
I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did. ~ Tanith Lee

Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age. ~ Lykke Li

All you have to do is to make it your business to find out what people want ~ instead of assuming it, instead of telling them.
The one rule that sums up the job to be done ~ the one formula that is fully in harmony with the real world ~ the secret of success is:
Find out what people want and help them get it! ~ Harry Browne

I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing house dresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example. ~ Imelda Marcos

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out. ~ Rob Zombie

People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth. ~ Roberto Bolano

People spend their careers trying to figure out what makes a hit single. But I learned a long time ago that you can't anticipate what people want, because it's always going to change. ~ Joe Perry

The idea of finding your soul mate, whether it's online or not, is what people want. ~ Nev Schulman

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message. ~ Ken Follett

What people want out of their politicians is exactly the same thing that I want - somebody who is approachable, willing to work, and tells me the truth as they see it. ~ John Yarmuth

If you're a writer, you're not a short order cook. Forget what people want. Write what you want to write, be true to yourself ~ Mark Rubinstein

Truth is what people want to believe and nothing more. ~ Leon Uris

You do not need proof for what people want to believe. ~ Thomas Sowell

Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far less than the individual because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. And they say that love is greatest thing, they persist in saying this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do ( ... It's a lie to say that love is greatest, what people want is hate - hate, and nothing but hate. And in the name of righteousness and love they get it ... If we want hate, let us have it - death, murder, torture, violent destruction- let us have it: but not in the name of love. ~ D.H. Lawrence

When you're a cat, most of the time you're thinking about cat things. Little movements in the grass, cupboards that aren't quite closed, patches of sunlight on rocks, narrow places at the backs of closets - you're always noticing those things. You can't help yourself. It's boring if you think about it, but you don't think about it because you're a cat. ... sometimes you know what people want. You don't always care; but you know what they want. ~ Kristin Kladstrup

I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it. ~ Larry David

He thinks, the cardinal would have known how best to manage this. Wolsey always said, work out what people want, and you might be able to offer it; it is not always what you think, and may be cheap to supply. ~ Hilary Mantel

The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's Yahoo's business. This is a huge opportunity for us because we have the content and all the information people want on their phones. ~ Marissa Mayer

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want. ~ Ben Stein

Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want. ~ Sinbad

We're not co-sleeping. I'm all for what people want to do in their home, but I need my bed. I'm a terrible sleeper ... I toss and turn and flip, and it would just be a disaster if there were a baby there. And I think it's important for a kid to have their own space. ~ Busy Philipps

And what people want to own, of course, is real estate. So a dental hygienist with bad credit making forty thousand dollars a year felt that she deserved to park her ass in a million-dollar home. With a little creative financing, and as long as housing prices continued to rise, she believed that she could afford a million-dollar home. And as long as the dental hygienist continued to pay interest on the mortgage for the million-dollar home, as long as housing prices continued to rise, as long as more loan officers approved more loans for more dental hygienists with bad credit who could continue to pay the interest on their overblown mortgages, housing prices would indeed stay stratospheric, and banks could print money based on that certainty. And, like your nursery rhyme, that was the house that Jack built." Kalchefsky ~ Jade Chang

Anyway, it's easy to be what people want: give them something to stare at, nod and smile, tell them they're gorgeous. ~ Lucy Christopher

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want. ~ Chuck Barris

The thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first. ~ Sam Altman

Keep trying, especially at first. It can be very discouraging if your submissions keep being rejected by a publisher, but if your work is what people want to read, you should get there eventually! ~ Robin Jarvis

I don't know what people want, really. Does somebody have to die? What is meant by resolution? These are questions that I don't quite know what to do with. That being said, I did want the characters to be changed by the end of the book. But will what they've gone through alter their lives from this point forward, i.e. will they make different (better) choices? Probably not. ~ Mary J. Miller

There is a difference between the typical politician and the statesman. A typical politician is that person who tells people what people want to hear, while the statesman tells people what people need to know. ~ Oscar Arias

An ironic revelation of the television-computer age is that what people want from machines is humanity: stories, contact, and interaction. ~ Thomas Lewis

It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire. ~ Jess Walter

Do you know what people want most?

Something somebody else has. ~ Larfleeze

Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins. ~ Lindsey Graham

There is a great way to find out what people want; simply ask them what they want. ~ Unknown

Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered. ~ Nancy O'Dell

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see. ~ Andrew Mason

When I come out to do my stand-up set, I pretty much get bombarded with lines from movies. You try to play off it a little bit, but that's what people want to see. Some clubs, the drunker the audience gets, the more they heckle. ~ Kevin Heffernan

What people want to know is, OK, what's after modeling? It's not just OK anymore to model until you're 25 and then stop and be a housewife. ~ Gigi Hadid

It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes. ~ Jimi Hendrix

Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak. ~ Heather Brooke

The truth is ... you think what people want you to think. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth. ~ Sara Gran

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence. ~ Jonathan Miller

History is what people want to remember. ~ Jane Stevenson

I feel like I've started to create my own culture of being a voice for something, and that's what people want to know about. I love that because I am a woman and because I a rap, and I look the way I look, I can connect with the demographic of people who feel like they have a voice in me. ~ Lizzo

Maybe I went a bit too far, but that's what people want now. There's an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature. Everyone wants to see children treated badly. So that ... well, so that when they triumph over evil we all feel lifted up. It's inspirational. ~ Tony Burgess

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same. ~ David Brooks

I could make Halo. It's not that I couldn't design that game. It's just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play. ~ Shigeru Miyamoto

When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want. ~ Anna Netrebko

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk ~ Michael Crichton

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree. ~ John Brunner

You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read. ~ Kelly Sue DeConnick

News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity. ~ Bill Moyers

What people "want" is a function of what they learn is available. If you wish to sell something, you'd better understand that you can't give people what they want in the market today, because what they want today is what they can already get. You have to discover what they really want, and find some way to give that physical shape. ~ Erik Naggum

What people want is a sense of a better future to come. ~ Douglas Alexander

AUDIENCE ORIENTATION: Social marketers view their audience as decision-makers with choices, rather than students to be educated, or incorrigibles to be regulated. Social Marketing begins with a bottom-up versus a top-down perspective, and therefore rejects the paternalist notion that "experts know what is best and will tell people how to behave for their own good" in favor of an audience-centered approach which seeks to understand what people want and provide them support in acquiring it. ~ Nancy R. Lee

You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it. ~ Domenico Dolce

What people want is perfection," said the man. "In themselves." "But they need the steps to it to be pointed out," said the woman. "In a simple order," said the man. "With encouragement," said the woman. "And a positive attitude. ~ Margaret Atwood

I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two or three more outlets. I have to be more adaptable color-wise to what people want. It's usually just black and pink, and that's it. ~ Manolo Blahnik

I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back. ~ Neil Gaiman

I'm not going to try to be too young because at the end of the day, I'm not 20 anymore. I don't want to sound corny or look corny doing young things. All the stuff that the kids are doing, that's not my place. I believe that everyone followed me back then, they're still here. That's who I'm trying to talk to and relate to. All the trap music and all of that, it's great but I can't do that. I'm going to stay vintage Ginuwine and stay at the place that got me here. That's what people want. ~ Ginuwine

People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government. ~ Bob McDonnell

I am pretty. I am healthy. I can look at myself in the mirror and accept myself for me and not for what people want to see. ~ Charlena E. Jackson

I never know what people want to hear when they say that stuff. And it's not like anything about me is interesting or nothing. "Have you always lived in Cambridge?" I nodded. "Do you live alone?" I nodded again. So then he gave up on twenty questions and started telling me about himself. ~ J.L. Merrow

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. ~ Bill Gates

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work. ~ Wilbur Smith

I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this (laughs). You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests. ~ Mick Jagger

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want. ~ Delia Smith

What people want is big government that they don't have to pay for. ~ Timothy Noah

No matter how great a technical expert you are, you will never be able to create something useful until you know what people want. ~ Prem Jagyasi

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing. ~ Glenn Frey

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art. ~ Haruki Murakami

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves. ~ Felix Dennis

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth. ~ James Rebhorn

Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power. ~ Cecelia Ahern

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good. ~ Rondal Partridge

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect. ~ Sara Gruen

Do what you want, not what people want you to do. ~ Michelle A. Valentine