Quotes About Ingenuity

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

When you have no money, you need invention.

A business can be started with very little money.

When you have no money for marketing, everything you do is marketing.

Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

my mother is a good mathematicianshe was able to divide 3 eggsinto 8 mouths equally every day