“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

Re: creation of lisp machine/lispOS http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/c2fd86a7e43ac7aa (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, Miscellaneous

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "What people "want" is a function of what they learn is available. If you wish to sell something, you'd better understan…" by Erik Naggum?

Erik Naggum118

Norwegian computer programmer 1965–2009

Related quotes

“Never give up what you want most for what you want today.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

“Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. If you want love, give love. If you want honesty, give honesty. If you want respect, give respect. You get in return, what you give.”

Ralph Smart

facebook

“I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life. Forcing people to give it to you, or making them want to give it to you.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”

Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

“You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

Secrets of Closing the Sale (1984)
Variant: You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

“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.”

Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

Interview with Inc. Magazine for its "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award" (1 April 1989) http://www.inc.com/magazine/19890401/5602.html <br class="br">1980s <br class="br">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.

“The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

#295
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)