“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”
Source: Horns
“Sometimes, you didn’t get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.”
Source: The King
“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
Variant: well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.”
Source: The Long Goodbye
Interview with Inc. Magazine for its "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award" (1 April 1989) http://www.inc.com/magazine/19890401/5602.html
1980s
Variant: You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
