Quotes About Ingenuity

I have a motto that if something isn't blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it.

It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.

Cheaper'n recyclin' yer nose tissues. --Mema

Creativity is magic in the making.

Creativity is divine.

What good is having an imagination if you don't use it?

Without creativity you are nothing.

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?

I've found that if one keeps pushing along during the mopes, out will flash the most exhilarating thought or idea—a way of doing something that I had never seen

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We've got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.

If you run your ship with the conviction that everyone's a slacker, your employees will put all their ingenuity into proving you right.

Usa lo que ya tengas a mano o lo que puedas conseguir por poco dinero. Y ponte en marcha. El equipo no es lo relevante. Lo relevante es sacarle el máximo partido a lo que tengas. Tu arte está en tus dedos.

Do less than your competitors to beat them. Solve the simple problems and leave the hairy, difficult, nasty problems to the competition. Instead of one-upping, try one-downing. Instead of outdoing, try underdoing.

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.

Jugaad started as the Hindi word for an ultracheap vehicle first fashioned by rural Punjabi carpenters. Having nothing but empty pockets and a problem to solve, the local craftsmen took an old diesel irrigation pump, attached it to a wooden frame, and added wheels and the discarded steering system from a broken-down jeep. They called this jalopy "jugaad," roughly translated as "using few resources and a lot of determination to find an innovative solution to a problem.

Companies with long histories of successfully embracing change and reinvention have a shared disdain for waste and indulgence, which probably comes from the fact that during their formative years they had to count on ingenuity instead of cash to maintain momentum and keep on creating better tomorrows for all the stakeholders.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

What they accomplished, Alice, with instruments and weapons of stone and bone, surely that may we accomplish also.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth.

Edison averaged one patent for every ten to twelve days of his adult life.

As someone once said, originality is not taking from somebody else. It's when nobody can take it from you and repeat it.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.