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Need Quotes

Naming what's needed, without the extra words.

This set is heavy on sports specifics, like a manager listing exactly the kinds of pitchers a team needs to compete. For quotes with a similarly direct, plainspoken tone, see Just quotes.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Quotes by Charles Kettering

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Quotes by Charles Kingsley

Koch companies employ 60,000 Americans, who make many thousands of products that Americans want and need.

Quotes by Charles Koch

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign...

Quotes by Charles Koch

For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment.

Quotes by Charles L. Evans

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

Quotes by Charles de Lint

Most shoppers don't buy everything they need at one store.

Quotes by Charles Duhigg

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Quotes by Charles Eames

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Quotes by Charles Eames

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

Quotes by Charles Eastman

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

Quotes by Charles Evers

A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.

Quotes by Charles Dance

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Quotes by Charles Albert Gobat

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.

Quotes by Charles B. Rangel

We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.

Quotes by Charles Barkley

To get DonorsChoose.org to scale, we first need to increase the viral appeal of our website.

Quotes by Charles Best

If anything, we hope that DonorsChoose.org is going to be a prompt, a nudge in the side of the public school system to improve and to start delivering these materials and experiences that students need and to make it easier...

Quotes by Charles Best

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

Quotes by Channing Tatum

My ex-husband and I, even though we're not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he's there.

Quotes by Charisma Carpenter

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these quotes say about building a winning team?
One quote breaks it down simply: "We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief." For more sports wisdom, see our Know page.
Is there a quote about needing star players?
Yes - one quote humorously narrows it down: "We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax." Browse more in our Just collection.
Does the collection have a funny quote about friendship on a team?
One quote is dryly funny about it: "I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog."
Is there a quote about the need for strong leadership?
Yes - one quote describes an organization's own commitment to being "one significant source of the leadership we need." For more on leadership, see our Like page.
What's the common thread in these quotes?
Each one identifies something essential that's needed to get the job done - whether it's pitching depth, star talent, or leadership. Explore more in our Always section.

One entry pivots to education, framing leadership as the resource the field still needs most. Readers can also browse Know quotes for related certainty, or Like quotes for comparable everyday phrasing.