Quotes About Resourcefulness

Everything can be used in a lifetime; I've discovered that.

Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

For Henri Jayer of Vosne-Romanée in Burgundy, it meant trading his wine for food so his family would have enough to eat. For Prince Philippe Poniatowski of Vouvray, it meant burying his best wines in his yard so that he would have something to restart business with after the war.

Whenever the long poles supporting their homes began to rot, they simply moved to a new location and built new homes.

A story tells of Henry Ford's buying scrapped Ford cars and having his engineers disassemble them to see which parts failed and which were still in good shape. Engineers assumed this was done to find the weak parts and make them stronger. Nope. Ford explained that he wanted to find the parts that were still in good shape. The company could save money if they redesigned these parts to fail at the same time as the others.

Kate never had any money, but she loved to save it. When she was ninety-three her youngest daughter took her to a dollar store where she found an elevated tray filled with tiny aluminum percolators, one-cuppers. The frank and ethical enterprise attached a notice informing its customers that these percolators did not work. They were only 5 cents, so Kate bought two of them anyway.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.

When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

I've got an air mattress for a bed...really living the high life.

When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade.

When life gives you lemons, you exchange them at the store for something more edible.

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.