Quotes About Ingenuity

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!

I don't need to wait for someone else to get a bright idea and say, 'I wanna work with this guy.' I can do my own thing and drop it right on the Web and bypass you and your bright idea.

Weddings have become an expression not just of our desires but also our ambitions, and so more and more the food at weddings is like the food everywhere else, with the ingredients parsed for purity and the preparation praised for ingenuity and the sushi chef standing where the carving table used to be.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

It is always possible to create something original.

When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.

In North Korea I thought a frozen potato was the fanciest food in the world.

My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.

When you're poor, an egg sandwich is dinner and you cut your potatoes with a butter knife.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

I converted a problem into an opportunity.

The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew... carpentry.

If you want to copy somebody, you're going to be second at best, and always a step behind.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

Of course, I'm no dummy.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

Behind closed doors, I'm a crafty person.

At its best, entrepreneurship creates jobs, solves problems, and galvanizes creative thinking.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

I feel like I'm the most creative when I'm bored.