Quotes about Resourcefulness

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?

When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

When he was a boy (Carnegie) back in Scotland, he got hold of a rabbit, a mother rabbit. Presto! He soon had a whole nest of little rabbits and nothing to feed them. But he had a brilliant idea. He told the boys and girls in the neighbourhood that if they would go out and pull enough clover and dandelions to feed the rabbits, he would name the bunnies in their honour. The plan worked like magic.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

The Macedonians gave in the context of their lack of resources.

Cash is filling up the holes he bored in the top of it. He is trimming out plugs for them, one at a time, the wood wet and hard to work. He could cut up a tin can and hide the holes and nobody wouldn't know the difference. Wouldn't mind, anyway. I have seen him spend a hour trimming out a wedge like it was glass he was working, when he could have reached around and picked up a dozen sticks and drove them into the joint and made it do.

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

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.