Quotes About Resourcefulness

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the time to be right to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Give me all the money I need, and I will find everything else I want.

Cualquier hombre es educado si sabe dónde adquirir el conocimiento cuando lo necesita y cómo organizar ese conocimiento en planes definidos de acción.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

The Junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.

Any person is educated who knows where to get knowledge when needed, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

Rational flâneur (or just flâneur): Someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision opportunistically at every step to revise his schedule (or his destination) so he can imbibe things based on new information obtained. In research and entrepreneurship, being a flâneur is called "looking for optionality.

innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity

It struck me how lacking in imagination we are:

Bricolage is a form of trial and error close to tweaking, trying to make do with what you've got by recycling pieces that would be otherwise wasted.

poverty makes experiences

when you leave people alone, they tend to settle for practical reasons.

Lev smiles. Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold

Give him a calculator and he can change the world, but whenever the car breaks down, and the mechanic asks him what's wrong, his response is usually, "It broke.

Book smarts are nice like heelies are nice: They'll only get you so far, until you have to use your freaking feet. In fight-or-flight situations it's the street smarts that will get you out alive.

a pawn can be as valuable as a knight in the right circumstance

Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.

Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. Out here we call it 'hustling.' I'd like to be a good hustler.

Prophets sneer that the Wizards' faith in human resourcefulness is unthinking, scientifically ignorant, even driven by greed (because remaining within ecological limits will cut into corporate profits).

wolf bone was the Stone Age equivalent of a supercomputer.