Quotes About Ingenuity

Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

This did not faze Danny, who had been called much worse things, occasionally by the emergency room staff. (Seriously, though, why would anyone make chocolate-flavored laxatives? It was just asking for trouble.)

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.

So much technology, so little talent.

human happiness buttons that can be pressed—the same basic factors such as friendship, health, community, overcoming challenges with your own ingenuity, and feeling in control of your life. These work for everyone. At the same time, most of us are tempted by the ideas of convenience, status, and luxury, and buying ourselves treats to satisfy these temptations. And we're really good at justifying some of these trinkets as our true passions.

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

You manufacture beauty with your mind

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

You might be a redneck if the best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.

I do the best with what exists.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

In America, small business is a big deal.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved, there are business opportunities.

Creativity comes from constraint.

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

The secret of success in business is creativity.