Quotes About Resourcefulness

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy.

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

Friday was added to my nickname because I have a talent of getting on with most people. So it's a bit of a man Friday thing.

Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. [Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men.]

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!

Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.

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.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.