Quotes About Resourcefulness

A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.

Some people don't know how to take some of the everyday, regular things that they have going for them and turn it into something else.

We deal with emergencies on a regular basis out here in the Plain States.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

I didn't know how to do a press release, so I'd call the local Assembly member and say, 'Hey, can you fax me one of your press releases?' 'Which one?' 'Any one.'

If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.

You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.

America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.

Instead of giving people fish, teach them how to use hooks.

I love to sew in the hotel room. I even sew in the locker room sometimes.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.

There's only so many ways you can cope with being in dire means, and one way is humour.

The right use of food can end hunger.

It is a do-it-yourself era: health care, real estate, police investigation. Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

Go online and fucking figure it out for yourself because everyone's overworked and understaffed.

There were, of course, no sanitary napkins, or even newspapers, and the girls used large leaves – burdock leaves if they could find them – to protect themselves. But any blood showing on a dress meant death; it was unaesthetic, and the SS were very keen on aesthetics.)

You children have created quite a stir in the hunt. Why? asked Amy. We've outsmarted a few people, but I don't think we're winning. She paused. Are we? Perhaps not, but you're younger than the rest of us, with fewer resources, no branch to support you, and almost zero knowledge of our family history. Many predicted you wouldn't last a week. Yet here you are, right in the thick of things.

Once she had an infected tooth that was getting progressively worse along a trip. Getting help was simply too dangerous, so she knocked out her top row of teeth with the handle of the gun she always carried. Now that's commitment.

Sometimes it's easier to cut your coat to fit the cloth than lie on the bed you've made.

Presumably she had an idea--women were appallingly practical: they built new plans at once out of the ruins of the old.

This is European duplicity, Pyle. We have to make up for our lack of supplies.

Even with all the mayonnaise in the world, you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.