Quotes About Demand

End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way people respond to them.

Gratitude is most treasured when it is unexpected. When we expect, even demand gratitude, we treat it simply as payment due for some service we rendered and we squeeze any good feeling out of it.

we expect a wine of quality to demand something from us.

After all, a person has only two hands, and these days there're too many patients and too few doctors.

Despite all ideological attempts to transcend the mode in clothes, it is the lust of the eye for change, the power of the eye to make instant associations, and its need to demand and to create and combine images that hold clothing to significant and delicate shifts of dynamic visual form.

Who were the men who did this? Guido demanded suddenly. Tonio was putting on his cloak. He looked up as if already in deep thought. Fools, he answered, at the command of a coward.

Who were the men who did this? Guido demanded suddenly. Tonio was putting on his cloack. He looked up as if already in deep thought. Fools, he answered, at the command of a coward. page 139

It was a bold and proud immortal who looked at me, a blood drinker who demanded that the world at last give him some quarter, an aberrant being of immense power who insisted he might have a place among the human beings which he had in former times been one.

Do you promise? He demanded again. I can't let you go, Alek. She said softly. You...what?

that's where the money is in publishing—people who don't read.

No es acaso el atiborramiento la forma más refinada del sadismo? Y el amor, llevado a este punto de saturación de la demanda, ¿no se convierte en una forma de tortura?

Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

Do extremely difficult work. That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued but scarce because it's difficult, you're more likely to be in demand and to be compensated fairly for what you do. The implication is stunning, though: When designing a project or developing a skill, seek out the most difficult parts to master and contribute. If it's easy, it's not for you.

The market wants to see you persist. It demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

A factory demands a compliant workforce in order to succeed. And so we've organized around this idea of compliance in all things—in school, in the foods we eat, in the way we respond to marketing. And it's a dead end.

The factory is a dead end and so is compliance. More obedience will not make us better. That's why graceful is in such demand.

people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know. The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.

Make things better. It's entirely possible that the thing you are marketing satisfies no real demand.

There's a gap in the market where your version of better can make a welcome change happen.

It doesn't make any sense to make a key and then run around looking for a lock to open. The only productive solution is to find a lock and then fashion a key. It's easier to make products and services for the customers you seek to serve than it is to find customers for your products and services.

Jinnah proved obdurate: he was determined to obtain Pakistan. The Muslim League leader declared 16 August 1946 as 'Direct Action Day' to drive home this demand. Thousands of Muslim Leaguers took to the streets in an orgy of violence, looting and mayhem, and 16,000 innocents were killed in the resulting clashes, particularly in Calcutta.

Don't play that game with me, Acheron. Tell me what I need to know! (Xypher) Nice tone. We should rent you out to record Halloween albums. (Acheron)