Quotes about Resourcefulness

When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution. And remember, you can usually turn good enough into great later.

What distinguishes people who are ten times more effective than the norm is not that they work ten times as hard; it's that they use their creativity to come up with solutions that require one-tenth of the effort.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

you will be on your way because you will have discovered that you can always find a capable helping hand at the end of your own sleeve.

If the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

No one ever has the resources they need.