Resourcefulness Quotes

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own”
― Kerry E. Wagner

“There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.”
― Ralph Moody

“When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.”
― Stephen Ambrose

“We all have a responsibility to be efficient stewards of resources. That’s also what good investing is about - being an efficient steward of resources.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“We all have a responsibility to be efficient stewards of resources.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Experience has taught me," said Peter (...) "that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon

“The ability to extract maximum value from resources while creating minimum waste is a profitable skill to have.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Holistic wealth is about creating circumstances in your life that allow you to be resilient and resourceful”
― Keisha Blair, Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness

“If God blesses you with resources, be a blessing to others. Being generous is a soulful pleasure.”
― Art Rios, Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional

“If you'd like to gain a new understanding of resourcefulness, get into gardening.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When a business utilizes resources wisely, it becomes better able to widen the margins between revenues and expenses.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“If you wanna learn about resource utility, go meditate in a forest.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Whenever a resource has not been fully utilized, that's waste.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“If you complain about the money or resources you lack, then you will lack more of it. However, if you are grateful for the money and resources you do have, however small or large it may be, you will gain more of it.”
― Hendrith Smith, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“[Enoch Root] hadn't really known what to expect of America. But people here seem to do things—hangings included—with a blunt, blank efficiency that's admirable and disappointing at the same time. Like jumping fish, they go about difficult matters with bloodless ease. As if they were all born knowing things that other people must absorb, along with faery-tales and superstitions, from their families and villages. Maybe it is because most of them came over on ships.
(Boston Common, October 12, 1713, 10:33:52 a.m.)”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

“We call you uneducated when you have 50-5000 friends on Facebook and you are still broke”
― Mac Duke The Strategist

“We may not be able to control the events, but we can always control our response to them. We need to ensure that our perspective is an empowering and resourceful one”
― Monjyoti Bhattacharyya, A Relentless Pursuit of the Truth - A philosophical guide to living a life of fulfillment and meaning

“Don't ask for prices to fall, ask for you value to increase”
― Mac Duke The Strategist

“Today, with a cellphone, Internet connectivity and a name, you can know anything about anyone who ever did anything you are interested in.”
― Saidi Mdala, Know What Matters

“Embrace the empowering belief that you can always find a way. Resourceful people know that even though a solution may not be immediately obvious, it probably exists.”
― Anthony Iannarino, The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need

“Being Danish, all you have is your supple grip and your light touch. There are plenty of places in the world where the guest who extends a weaponless hand is the most welcome. A man from a small and weak country is as good as stateless. Just wave your Danish flag. They won't see a white cross against a red background as a crusading banner; they'll just see it as a white cloth. So wrap yourself in its innocence, lao-yeh.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“The musher’s motto has always been Drive the dogs you have, not the dogs someone else has.”
― John Balzar, Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race

“Raising my kids, it seemed about all I had to remember was to encourage resourcefulness, be nice, and don’t reward bullshit.”
― Tom Harpole, Regarding Willingness

“Don’t dismiss any of the thoughts or ideas that come. Your gut is your compass. Others would call this 'instrument' heart or intuition. Whatever it is for you, listen to it. Anything it points to is a resource.”
― Victoria Ichizli-Bartels, Gameful Writing: Seven People, Seven Stories, Seven Lessons Learned

“Dreams help us realize our potential and how to tap into our greatest resources within us and around us.”
― Dee Waldeck

“And Coop didn't know how to explain to him--what it is to be desperate. To have to thread survival using the hair off your own head because even string is a luxury sometimes.”
― Allie Ray, Suffering Fools

“Parents are resourceful and ingenuitive. If we don’t find the right reading materials, workbooks, and hands-on learning kits, we will create our own.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Homeschooling on a Budget

“One that counts is better than ten that do not count. Few handy are more usable than many but absent.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Time, energy, effort, and resources should be channel to then small that matters most, rather than to the large that is not essential”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua