Quotes About Resourcefulness

But it's not what you have that brings you victory, it's how you use it.

Perfect economy, then, does not mean hoarding your resources. That is not economy but stinginess—deadly in war. Perfect economy means finding a golden mean, a level at which your blows count but do not wear you out.

Do not waste precious time trying to steal a sheep or two ...

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.

It seemed to Rand like years since there had not been firewood to split. But complaining would not keep the house warm, so he fetched the axe, propped up bow and quiver beside the chopping block, and got to work. Pine for a quick, hot flame, and oak for long burning.

Men were willing to wear the same clothes until they rotted off. Of

Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration's programs, "We'll just try them…and if they don't work…why then we'll just try something else.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

You can't make bricks without straw, and most of the time all the straw you got is secondhand straw from the cowpen.

The ingenious way in which Dennison and his colleagues broke out of their seemingly impregnable prison, using only a steel belt buckle, a tungsten filament, three hens' eggs, and twelve chemicals that can be readily obtained from the human body, is too well known to be repeated here.

Having no money should not be an excuse to not learn.

An entrepreneur can make money out of nothing.

Use them in your favor, not against you.

Entrepreneurs are different, and one of those differences is their ability to operate sanely and intelligently without money.

by automatically saying the words "I can't afford it," your brain stops working. By asking the question "How can I afford it?" your brain is put to work.

one dad had a habit of saying, "I can't afford it." The other dad forbade those words to be used. He insisted I ask, "How can I afford it?

It is how creative you are in solving financial problems.

the person with the ability, knowledge, or creativity to solve problems will see more opportunities than ever.

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all .

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

Now, don't fly off the handle. Martha said the butcher at the Glen had no meat this week and she had to have something and the hens were all laying and too poor.

I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach.

Men have gotten by without legs. Lots of 'em lost legs in the war. You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey anyway. It don't take legs to do that.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.