“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.”
Source: The Carrie Diaries
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Candace Bushnell 75
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Re: creation of lisp machine/lispOS http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/c2fd86a7e43ac7aa (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Miscellaneous
“You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”
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.

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.