The thing is, most people don’t ask for what they want. They wish for it, they make “suggestions” and drop hints, they hope. But the simple fact of business is that only by asking do you receive what you want. No ASK? No GET. That applies to every part of life. Seriously, every part.

How can you ask for something you don't think you deserve?

I don’t ask for much. I should ask for a lot, then maybe I might get some.

People want what they can’t have. People want what other people want. People want things only a select few have access to.

If you don't ask, you don't get it

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

"We don't get what we need. We get what we search for".

Beaucoup de gens se plaignent de n'avoir pas ceci ou cela ; mais la cause en est toujours qu'ils ne l'ont point vraiment désiré.

People who want special taxes or subsidies for particular things seem not to understand that what they are really asking for is for the prices to misstate the relative scarcities of things and the relative values that the users of these things put on them.

It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place.

It is easier to ask for money when you don’t need the money.

"Like all human beings, like me, like us, they wished for what they did not have. "I am alone and I want what I have not and what I shall never have." It is by this need that people live, and by this need that people die."