Needs Assessment Quotes

The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

I try to differentiate between what I need and don't need. I talk to my wife and children before buying things.

Talk to families in poverty and ask them what they need, instead of prescribing it for them. Ask what the barriers are. Ask what would help. And then deliver it.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

I look for what needs to be done

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

In my campaign, people and their needs come before everything else.

At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.

But right now I’m here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

When a mother feels cold, she asks the child to wear a sweater. Our concept of poverty is that way. When we do a project and people receive our help, we may think that they are getting benefited, but is this what they really wanted?

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.